Martin Luther - A Spiritual Biography – Reformed Christian Books

Martin Luther - A Spiritual Biography

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Written by Herman Selderhuis Winner of the 2018 Christianity Today Book Award in the History/Biography Category Famous for setting in motion the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther is often lifted high as a hero or condemned as a rebel. But underneath it all, he was a man of flesh and blood, with a...

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Written by Herman Selderhuis

Winner of the 2018 Christianity Today Book Award in the History/Biography Category

Famous for setting in motion the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther is often lifted high as a hero or condemned as a rebel. But underneath it all, he was a man of flesh and blood, with a deep longing to live for God.

This biography by respected Reformation scholar Herman J. Selderhuis captures Luther in his original context and follows him on his spiritual journey, from childhood through the Reformation to his influential later years. Combining Luther’s own words with engaging narrative designed to draw the reader into Luther’s world, this spiritual biography brings to life the complex and dynamic personality that forever changed the history of the church.

Endorsement

“This richly illustrated and succinctly written book, based on anything but superficial knowledge, is very much a life of Luther for everyone. While announcing itself as a ‘spiritual biography,’ it actually presents Luther in body and soul in his day-to-day contexts. Selderhuis catches very well Luther as a reformer stumbling daily from one unconcealed existential crisis to another, often beset with spiritual, mental, religious, family, political, physical, and personality problems. Here we have the real Luther―potent prophet of God, astonishing theologian, prolific writer, and phenomenal communicator indeed, but also a flawed genius whose attributes included buffoonery, vulgarity, vindictiveness, and downright rudeness. While many have viewed the reformer as a Hercules of the faith and the thirteenth apostle, this book reminds us that Luther was also no saint and that he had no pretensions to be one.” ―W. Ian P. Hazlett, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow; Editor in Chief, Reformation and Renaissance Review; author, The Reformation in Britain and Ireland; coauthor, A Useable Past

Hardcover with jacket, 352 pages, illustrated, chronology, notes, bibliography, general index, Scripture index