Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198722818 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Critical Commentary, not another narrative (a student's review). Heinz Schilling’s 2013 critical analysis (translated 2017 Rona Johnston) is not a narrative. There is thankfully no retelling of the Luther story.There is a good 2017 narrative by Andrew Pettegree “Brand Luther” which I find memorable for its defence of Tetzel, while Schilling glosses over the indulgence controversy. Like Lyndal Roper’s 2017 MARTIN LUTHER Renegade and Prophet, Schilling’s references are mostly to binary alphabets like LW, WB, WT, WW, i.e. original sources.Heinz Schilling assumes that the reader has read all the L. "Four Stars" according to Darryl R Stroup. Very good
Heinz Schilling was Professor of Early Modern History at the Humboldt University, Berlin until his retirement in 2010. His main areas of research are in early modern European history, including studies in religion, politics, migration studies, foreign policy, and social and cultural history.
Unlike so many biographers of Luther, Schilling is not a theologian or even a church historian by training. "Heinz Schilling's major new biography of Luther gives the most balanced account of Luther's life to date. He is one of the leading German experts on late medieval andsixteenth-century German history, and he places Luther firmly in the context of his time: a rebel in an age of unheaval review of German edition" --Joachim Whaley, TLS
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 Luther 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.