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Loading... Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheavalby Heinz Schilling
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A good, modern biography about the life and times of Martin Luther that reveals quite a bit of information that I was unaware of, such as that the actual family name was first written as “Luder” (modern German for slut). Like Hitler (formerly Hiedler), the sharp and hard th (t for English speakers) in Luther is crucial for the reception. If Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli had had a better sounding name, perhaps Luther would have been more open to his ideas. Heinz Schilling’s portrait of Martin Luther shows a deeply conservative and medieval man, a man personally plagued by the devil (causing the truly German disease of constipation). Martin Luther wanted the church and the Christian faith to return to its origin and source. He was holier than the pope (not a difficult undertaking given the renaissance popes in power). Luther’s training as a law student and university professor made him very aware of politics. He was masterful in serving as an instrument of the powerful and preaching against the weak and foreign. Schilling has a hard task defending Luther’s ugly words against peasants, Jews and Turks. Luther was quite the German bruiser and bully, used by the powerful against the pope, the emperor, foreigners and the poor. Luther’s enduring legacy is in his writing (and the church music he collected and texted). His productivity was enormous: On average over his life, he produced five print-ready pages per day. To sustain this effort, a powerful public relations, printing and imagining machine sprang into being in the tiny city of Wittenberg. no reviews | add a review
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No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation of Protestantism changed the religious landscape of Europe, and subsequently the world, but the author chooses to show not simply as a reformer, but as an individual. In his study of the Wittenberg monk, Heinz Schilling - one of Germany's leading social and political historians - gives the reader a rounded view of a difficult, contradictory character, who changed the world by virtue of his immense will. No library descriptions found. |
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