Martin Luther

In Martin Luther: Life and Lessons for an Emerging World, Larry D. Mansch and Curtis H. Peters tell the fascinating, turbulent story of the Great Reformer in a new way. Luther's biography, utilizing old and new sources as well as Luther's own words and accounts of his contemporaries, is told from the point of view of the historian. Luther's revolutionary thoughts on scripture and salvation are told from the point of view of the theologian, and offer a fresh perspective into the ideas that shook and irrevocably divided the Roman Catholic Church. This unique combination of narrative and analytical essays provides a fresh and exhaustive view of Luther's life and times, and a modern examination of the revolutionary theology that sparked the Reformation and changed the Christian world forever.