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Martin Luther: A Life from Beginning to End
Martin Luther Free BONUS Inside!* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet. Martin Luther is famous for the moment he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, yet the scope of his influence on the modern world is hardly limited to that one act. He emerged as a leader of the Reformation, coming onto the European scene at a time when modes of thought were changing, adapting from the medieval norm of reliance on authoritative sources such as Aristotle to modern ideas of discovering knowledge through textual interpretation, experience, and experimentation. Inside you will read about... ✓ From Law Student to Monk ✓ The Angry Monk ✓ 95 Theses ✓ Debater, Reformer and Heretic ✓ Knight George ✓ Defining the Lutheran Church And much more! As his life followed a tumultuous path from student to monk to reformer and church leader, his emphasis on salvation by faith and the authority of the Bible alone—not priests or the pope—had lasting impact on the history of the church. While Martin Luther may remain a controversial figure, his life and writings undoubtedly played an important role in the religious, intellectual, and political development of the Western world.
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August 2, 2021
This was an excellent introduction to Martin Luther. Only forty-nine pages long - the 'Hourly History' books are designed to be read in under an hour. Think of a long Wikipedia article, but one that is infinitely more readable.
I was bowled over by Martin Luther's story. What an extraordinary man...
He was born in Germany, into a Catholic society with long standing religious traditions. His family wanted him to be a lawyer, but Luther had barely started down that path when he was caught in a terrible and dangerous thunderstorm. "His thoughts turned from his physical danger to a fear of judgment and his eternal destiny. In terror, Martin vowed by Saint Anne that if he survived the storm, he would commit himself to a monastic life." As we know he did survive - and he went on to leave his legal training and join a monastery. He was utterly rigorous in trying to live a good life but "he continued to experience doubt and despair over his inability to do enough to please God.....He felt that no matter how much he did - good works, prayer, penance, fasting, and Mass - he could not be holy enough to satisfy God." He did however get great pleasure from reading the Bible, and he much appreciated doing this first hand, rather than having the Bible's ideas filtered down via clergy, theologians and scholars.
Over time, he began to formulate his own very original ideas about religion. These later became known partly in his famous 95 Theses, which argued against Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar who was reported to have preached to the faithful that the purchase of a letter of indulgence entailed the forgiveness of sins. (Indulgences were very much part of church life at this time.) He had other ideas as well, and the spread of these was greatly helped by the growing popularity of the printing press ...
The book also mentioned Luther's happy and stimulating home life. He had helped a group of nuns escape from a convent - and whilst nearly all of them went on to find husbands, the last, Katharina von Bora, was without a partner. In the end he married her, and it turned out to be a very happy marriage. They ran a large household with six children and lots of lodgers. At one time there were twenty-five people living there, eventually a book was published based on their 'table conversations'.
Regrettably as he grew older his attitude towards the pope became quite vitriolic, and he was also deeply critical of the Jewish community. He had however lived a rich and deeply influential life. As time went on his ideas came to be labelled 'Lutheran' and the reformed church that he had largely created, was amassed under that title.
The book made me hungry for more detail about this amazing man, and perhaps the only thing lacking was a list of suggested further reading.
I liked this book, so did some online probing to find out more about the Hourly History Series. Whilst I paid a minimum amount for this book from Amazon, I found that they have a website where they give their books away as free ebooks.
https://hourlyhistory.com/
I also had a look at some of their titles here on Goodreads, and the ratings they get are pretty good. I shall certainly be investigating more of the books in the series.
I was bowled over by Martin Luther's story. What an extraordinary man...
He was born in Germany, into a Catholic society with long standing religious traditions. His family wanted him to be a lawyer, but Luther had barely started down that path when he was caught in a terrible and dangerous thunderstorm. "His thoughts turned from his physical danger to a fear of judgment and his eternal destiny. In terror, Martin vowed by Saint Anne that if he survived the storm, he would commit himself to a monastic life." As we know he did survive - and he went on to leave his legal training and join a monastery. He was utterly rigorous in trying to live a good life but "he continued to experience doubt and despair over his inability to do enough to please God.....He felt that no matter how much he did - good works, prayer, penance, fasting, and Mass - he could not be holy enough to satisfy God." He did however get great pleasure from reading the Bible, and he much appreciated doing this first hand, rather than having the Bible's ideas filtered down via clergy, theologians and scholars.
Over time, he began to formulate his own very original ideas about religion. These later became known partly in his famous 95 Theses, which argued against Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar who was reported to have preached to the faithful that the purchase of a letter of indulgence entailed the forgiveness of sins. (Indulgences were very much part of church life at this time.) He had other ideas as well, and the spread of these was greatly helped by the growing popularity of the printing press ...
The book also mentioned Luther's happy and stimulating home life. He had helped a group of nuns escape from a convent - and whilst nearly all of them went on to find husbands, the last, Katharina von Bora, was without a partner. In the end he married her, and it turned out to be a very happy marriage. They ran a large household with six children and lots of lodgers. At one time there were twenty-five people living there, eventually a book was published based on their 'table conversations'.
Regrettably as he grew older his attitude towards the pope became quite vitriolic, and he was also deeply critical of the Jewish community. He had however lived a rich and deeply influential life. As time went on his ideas came to be labelled 'Lutheran' and the reformed church that he had largely created, was amassed under that title.
The book made me hungry for more detail about this amazing man, and perhaps the only thing lacking was a list of suggested further reading.
I liked this book, so did some online probing to find out more about the Hourly History Series. Whilst I paid a minimum amount for this book from Amazon, I found that they have a website where they give their books away as free ebooks.
https://hourlyhistory.com/
I also had a look at some of their titles here on Goodreads, and the ratings they get are pretty good. I shall certainly be investigating more of the books in the series.
April 13, 2019
He revisitado a Lutero con la presente mini biografía, y he descubierto cosas nuevas. Desconocía que fuese una terrible tormenta la que provocó que Martin decidiese dedicar su vida a la religión. El resto era bastante conocido, y sirve como recordatorio básico de una vida que, gracias a la invención de la imprenta, produjo un vuelco en el devenir del catolicismo, y sirvió para sembrar la duda en la inmaculada imagen que la Iglesia tenía ante sus atribulados creyentes. (Con honrosas excepciones anteriores que fueron erradicadas del mapa con la dualidad iglesia y estado que tantos destrozos ha causado en la humanidad). Interesante y breve.
July 22, 2021
The man who started the Protestant reformation
Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel. - Martin Luther
Martin Luther reformed the Catholic church, not for himself, but for his people. A bold move like this started big argumentative discussions between the reformers and the Catholics, which finally led to the separation of Catholics and Protestants. The outcome of this revolution changed European history, and Martin Luther gets the credit.
I just loved reading about this great man.
October 8, 2018
Martin Luther's "study of scriptures convinced him that salvation and righteousness were received from God on the basis of faith alone, not human effort". As father of Reformation movement in Europe, King's approach to Christianity marks a watershed that transformed the history of the continent. His was a fight against "indulgences" wherein papers were "available for a price that offered excusal for uncompleted penances". Despite "his position that violent resistance to governing authority was wrong" , what he started led to perhaps the most violent outcomes. The authors of Hourly History have done a marvelous job of bringing out the persona of Martin Luther so eloquently.
June 12, 2018
Martin Luther represents the rapidly changing 16th century Europe where many thanks to wide popularization of printing press, the spread of new knowledge including Copernicus’s suggestion of the universe as being heliocentric and the discovery of new sea trade routes by the Spanish and the Portuguese was available to the mass. Accordingly, this light reading of Martin Luther: A Life from Beginning to End elegantly narrates Luther’s role of not only a religious reformist but also a cultural leader of the epoch. The reader will learn that Luther was in the right place at the right time to be in the vanguard of the Protestant Reformation by defining the emerging Protestant church and putting Europe in medieval mindset toward the new Europe in a modern way of thinking like never before.
Luther was born in 1483 and christened Martin on the feast day of St. Martin, the day after his birth. The oldest of five siblings, Luther was brought up in a strict disciplinarian household in which his miner father’s no-nonsense work ethics and mother’s strict methods of corporeal punishment (e.g., she beat her son’s hands until they bled for stealing a nut from a market.) had strong impacts on his character and belief system. Academically speaking, Luther was a reasonably intelligent student, not a brilliant one with flying colors aiming to be a lawyer at the University of Erfurt. His favorite subject was classical literature of which Virgil’s Aeneid was his passion that led him to the humanistic idea of reading original texts in contrast with other mandatory subjects including rhetoric, reasoning, and argument based on a translated version of writings of Aristotle with commentaries. His original aspiration to become a lawyer was fatefully changed when he encountered a turbulent thunderstorm on his way to see his father and became so frightened that in fear of mortal danger, he prayed to St. Anne that if she protected him from the storm, he would take a vow of monastic life. Hence, instead of returning to the university, Luther went to the monastery of the Augustine to become a monk.
Luther’s doubt and despair over his inability to please God as much as possible according to the predominant nominalism, a medieval school of thought teaching that good works through the Church would please God, continued to vex his conscience and question the true meaning of Christianity, all the more fueled by his study of scripture in its original language. Luther’s indignation at the dogmas ruling over Christianity not the Gospels alone in its original text resulted in the famous 95 Theses opposing the Church’s selling indulgences on a variety of grounds nailed to the door of All Saints’ Church in Withenberg, which ignited embers of Reformation especially against Church of Rome. Surely, that the papacy was manmade, not divinely appointed was to infuriate the Church and excommunicate him. Notwithstanding the mortal threats from his foes, Luther was a man of convictions and successfully led the Reformation movement with a group of his followers. Be he ever imperfect, Luther was also a generous and kind man who cared for orphans and the sick even by lodging them in his house. Furthermore, Luther helped a group of nuns escape from a convent in 1523 during the Reformation and married Katharina von Bora, one of the escaped nuns without home and family whom Luther affectionately called, “My lord.”
In the eyes of Rome, Luther might be an infidel heretic to be condemned in the Sixth Circle of Inferno, but he was more of humanistic thinker, a pioneer educator putting his ideas into actions to upend the fallacies of the ecclesiastical bureaucracy and its practices under the pretext of redemption of fallen souls and blessing of celestial graces through the Church that had already become corrupt with the cardinal sins. What distinguishes Luther from other religious leaders is his role as a public activist, advocating church reform based on Christian freedom and the message of the Gospel in scripture without resorting to the use of violence because it was not of Christian conduct. He worked on the vernacular bible based on Erasmus’s recent edition of the New Testament in its original Greek by transcribing into German word by word without the use of commentaries in order that his translation would be accessible to the public and convey the contexts as truthfully as possible to the original. Also, Luther encouraged medieval German’s history of folk hymns in the vernacular during mass by rewriting the hymns himself, one of which was famed “A mighty fortress is our God.”
To encapsulate, the achievements of Luther that have influenced our modern way of thinking appertain to education of minds of people on the ground of individualism which are: (1) examination of each Christian’s conscience; (2) diligent reading of scripture; (3) building a direct relationship to God through only Christ, not through a priest; (4) active participation of laypersons in church worship; and (5) the use of hymns in the vernacular for the mass. Had it not been for Luther’s pyrrhic vanguard of reformation movement, Europe would have still remained in the medieval mode of thinking and living.
Luther was born in 1483 and christened Martin on the feast day of St. Martin, the day after his birth. The oldest of five siblings, Luther was brought up in a strict disciplinarian household in which his miner father’s no-nonsense work ethics and mother’s strict methods of corporeal punishment (e.g., she beat her son’s hands until they bled for stealing a nut from a market.) had strong impacts on his character and belief system. Academically speaking, Luther was a reasonably intelligent student, not a brilliant one with flying colors aiming to be a lawyer at the University of Erfurt. His favorite subject was classical literature of which Virgil’s Aeneid was his passion that led him to the humanistic idea of reading original texts in contrast with other mandatory subjects including rhetoric, reasoning, and argument based on a translated version of writings of Aristotle with commentaries. His original aspiration to become a lawyer was fatefully changed when he encountered a turbulent thunderstorm on his way to see his father and became so frightened that in fear of mortal danger, he prayed to St. Anne that if she protected him from the storm, he would take a vow of monastic life. Hence, instead of returning to the university, Luther went to the monastery of the Augustine to become a monk.
Luther’s doubt and despair over his inability to please God as much as possible according to the predominant nominalism, a medieval school of thought teaching that good works through the Church would please God, continued to vex his conscience and question the true meaning of Christianity, all the more fueled by his study of scripture in its original language. Luther’s indignation at the dogmas ruling over Christianity not the Gospels alone in its original text resulted in the famous 95 Theses opposing the Church’s selling indulgences on a variety of grounds nailed to the door of All Saints’ Church in Withenberg, which ignited embers of Reformation especially against Church of Rome. Surely, that the papacy was manmade, not divinely appointed was to infuriate the Church and excommunicate him. Notwithstanding the mortal threats from his foes, Luther was a man of convictions and successfully led the Reformation movement with a group of his followers. Be he ever imperfect, Luther was also a generous and kind man who cared for orphans and the sick even by lodging them in his house. Furthermore, Luther helped a group of nuns escape from a convent in 1523 during the Reformation and married Katharina von Bora, one of the escaped nuns without home and family whom Luther affectionately called, “My lord.”
In the eyes of Rome, Luther might be an infidel heretic to be condemned in the Sixth Circle of Inferno, but he was more of humanistic thinker, a pioneer educator putting his ideas into actions to upend the fallacies of the ecclesiastical bureaucracy and its practices under the pretext of redemption of fallen souls and blessing of celestial graces through the Church that had already become corrupt with the cardinal sins. What distinguishes Luther from other religious leaders is his role as a public activist, advocating church reform based on Christian freedom and the message of the Gospel in scripture without resorting to the use of violence because it was not of Christian conduct. He worked on the vernacular bible based on Erasmus’s recent edition of the New Testament in its original Greek by transcribing into German word by word without the use of commentaries in order that his translation would be accessible to the public and convey the contexts as truthfully as possible to the original. Also, Luther encouraged medieval German’s history of folk hymns in the vernacular during mass by rewriting the hymns himself, one of which was famed “A mighty fortress is our God.”
To encapsulate, the achievements of Luther that have influenced our modern way of thinking appertain to education of minds of people on the ground of individualism which are: (1) examination of each Christian’s conscience; (2) diligent reading of scripture; (3) building a direct relationship to God through only Christ, not through a priest; (4) active participation of laypersons in church worship; and (5) the use of hymns in the vernacular for the mass. Had it not been for Luther’s pyrrhic vanguard of reformation movement, Europe would have still remained in the medieval mode of thinking and living.
January 27, 2021
It was the 1500s and Europe was awakening from their dark and dreary Middle Ages to a new light of Rennaisance and Reformation. And that Reformation would have a powerful effect on Europe's religious ideas, politics, and intellectual thought. Martin Luther, a humble monk, was at the forefront (he's called the 'Father of the Reformation') crystallized the past thoughts of John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, and others, calling for change.
There's a fascinating passage in this book that states that education, at this time, was not normal for most children. If they learned anything, it was Latin, so they might be eligible to attend university. I think that is the first time I've heard that. So university classes must have been taught in Latin. University, at that time, was all-male and they behaved as if they were in a monastery (regimented classes, prayers, meals).
Of course, Luther was famous for his '95 Theses,' problems he saw in the Catholic Church. The most famous of these was the selling of indulgences by clerics, instead of insisting on penance and prayer for transgressions against God's laws. One thing that comes clearly across in the words of this book is the modesty of Luther; he believed he was a sinner, no matter how many good works he did. After careful study, he determined that it wasn't good works that would save a person, but believing in Jesus Christ.
By 1518, the Catholic Church began legal proceedings against Luther. Because of the conflict between the papacy and the current emperor, Luther was somewhat shielded from the pope's ire. However, by 1521, Pope Leo X declared Luther a heretic. A surprise in this reading was the news that Luther had translated the New Testament into German. Since the Bible was in Latin or Greek, the people had to rely on the interpretation via the clerics. With a German text, common people could read and interpret it for themselves.
Until reading this, I was not aware Martin Luther married and had 6 children. His name has been given to the faith (Lutherans) he helped clarify with his writings and his many hymn compositions (some still used today). I thought his story was interesting and well-written.
There's a fascinating passage in this book that states that education, at this time, was not normal for most children. If they learned anything, it was Latin, so they might be eligible to attend university. I think that is the first time I've heard that. So university classes must have been taught in Latin. University, at that time, was all-male and they behaved as if they were in a monastery (regimented classes, prayers, meals).
Of course, Luther was famous for his '95 Theses,' problems he saw in the Catholic Church. The most famous of these was the selling of indulgences by clerics, instead of insisting on penance and prayer for transgressions against God's laws. One thing that comes clearly across in the words of this book is the modesty of Luther; he believed he was a sinner, no matter how many good works he did. After careful study, he determined that it wasn't good works that would save a person, but believing in Jesus Christ.
By 1518, the Catholic Church began legal proceedings against Luther. Because of the conflict between the papacy and the current emperor, Luther was somewhat shielded from the pope's ire. However, by 1521, Pope Leo X declared Luther a heretic. A surprise in this reading was the news that Luther had translated the New Testament into German. Since the Bible was in Latin or Greek, the people had to rely on the interpretation via the clerics. With a German text, common people could read and interpret it for themselves.
Until reading this, I was not aware Martin Luther married and had 6 children. His name has been given to the faith (Lutherans) he helped clarify with his writings and his many hymn compositions (some still used today). I thought his story was interesting and well-written.
January 9, 2018
Many people instantly associate the name Martin Luther with the creation of an alternative Christian religion, other than that of the Roman Catholic Church. I may surprise many that this is just the tip of an iceberg of revolutionary ideas that originated from this German ex-monk/priest. He, like many of his contemporaries, spent his life more concerned about his afterlife than his existence on earth. The predominant theological philosophy of the time was nominalism, in other words, people expected to be rewarded in the afterlife for living a pious life and services rendered to the church. Luther seemed to have an unusual preoccupation with purgatory.
This was a revolutionary period of history. With Johann Gutenberg’s invention of the removable print printing press, it made the production and distribution of ideas much easier. Luther wasn’t your typical revolutionary. He manned no barricades; neither did he physically attack the established religious (Catholic) establishment. Luther had a problem with the corrupted state of the church and particularly criticized the practice of selling indulgences. This put a monetary value on the absolution of sin (basically buying a get out of jail for free card).The printing and distributing of his 95 Theses soon had the world around him thinking that it was time for a change. The religious hold that the church in Rome had over Europe was about to be broken.
This is a short history of a very significant period of time and a man that stood out among the middling. Although much information is included in this short biography, to get a full picture of Martin Luther’s doctrine and its impact on the German church, much more reading is required. I feel that few men would have the intestinal fortitude to take on the most powerful entity on earth, the Roman Catholic Church. Martin Luther was such a man. This is an interesting period of human development and one of its many shining stars.
This was a revolutionary period of history. With Johann Gutenberg’s invention of the removable print printing press, it made the production and distribution of ideas much easier. Luther wasn’t your typical revolutionary. He manned no barricades; neither did he physically attack the established religious (Catholic) establishment. Luther had a problem with the corrupted state of the church and particularly criticized the practice of selling indulgences. This put a monetary value on the absolution of sin (basically buying a get out of jail for free card).The printing and distributing of his 95 Theses soon had the world around him thinking that it was time for a change. The religious hold that the church in Rome had over Europe was about to be broken.
This is a short history of a very significant period of time and a man that stood out among the middling. Although much information is included in this short biography, to get a full picture of Martin Luther’s doctrine and its impact on the German church, much more reading is required. I feel that few men would have the intestinal fortitude to take on the most powerful entity on earth, the Roman Catholic Church. Martin Luther was such a man. This is an interesting period of human development and one of its many shining stars.
April 29, 2025
The five main takeaways from Martin Luther: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History, based on the provided information, focus on Martin Luther’s contributions to modern thought and the Reformation, emphasizing individualism and religious reform. These are:
1. Examination of Personal Conscience: Luther encouraged Christians to reflect on their own conscience, fostering a sense of individual moral responsibility rather than relying solely on church authority.
2. Diligent Reading of Scripture: He emphasized the importance of personal engagement with the Bible, promoting literacy and direct study of religious texts to understand faith.
3. Direct Relationship with God: Luther advocated that believers could connect with God through faith in Christ alone, bypassing the need for priests as intermediaries, which challenged the Catholic Church’s structure.
4. Active Lay Participation in Worship: He promoted the involvement of laypeople in church services, shifting from passive observation to active engagement in religious practices.
5. Use of Vernacular Hymns in Mass: Luther rewrote hymns in the vernacular, such as “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” making worship more accessible and relatable to common people, enhancing cultural and religious participation.
These takeaways highlight Luther’s role in transforming medieval religious practices and fostering a more individualistic approach to faith, significantly impacting Western religious, intellectual, and political development.
1. Examination of Personal Conscience: Luther encouraged Christians to reflect on their own conscience, fostering a sense of individual moral responsibility rather than relying solely on church authority.
2. Diligent Reading of Scripture: He emphasized the importance of personal engagement with the Bible, promoting literacy and direct study of religious texts to understand faith.
3. Direct Relationship with God: Luther advocated that believers could connect with God through faith in Christ alone, bypassing the need for priests as intermediaries, which challenged the Catholic Church’s structure.
4. Active Lay Participation in Worship: He promoted the involvement of laypeople in church services, shifting from passive observation to active engagement in religious practices.
5. Use of Vernacular Hymns in Mass: Luther rewrote hymns in the vernacular, such as “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” making worship more accessible and relatable to common people, enhancing cultural and religious participation.
These takeaways highlight Luther’s role in transforming medieval religious practices and fostering a more individualistic approach to faith, significantly impacting Western religious, intellectual, and political development.
March 1, 2024
Short History of Martin Luther
I love these short biographies of famous people from the past. Even though brief, this gives a basic summary of the life of Martin Luther. Luther was one of the most influential men in the reformation of the Protestant Church. While the Roman Catholic Church had fallen under heretical beliefs that continue to this day, men like Luther, Calvin, Swingli, and Knox were bringing the Holy Scriptures to the people and teaching them the Truth, the Way, and the Life, Jesus Christ. It is through Him and Him alone that we can be reconciled to our Holy GOD!
I love these short biographies of famous people from the past. Even though brief, this gives a basic summary of the life of Martin Luther. Luther was one of the most influential men in the reformation of the Protestant Church. While the Roman Catholic Church had fallen under heretical beliefs that continue to this day, men like Luther, Calvin, Swingli, and Knox were bringing the Holy Scriptures to the people and teaching them the Truth, the Way, and the Life, Jesus Christ. It is through Him and Him alone that we can be reconciled to our Holy GOD!
May 6, 2023
The man who started it
Martin Luther was a strange sort of person, but he was also a very deep thinking individual. Like all these books it gives you enough information to get you started on exploring the man and the movement he was part of. I don't think you can fully understand Martin Luther in just the few pages written here, but it is a start. I wondered if it would mention anything about his view of Judaism, which it did briefly mention so that was a big plus. If you want to discover facts of early leaders of the Reformation then this is a good starting point.
Martin Luther was a strange sort of person, but he was also a very deep thinking individual. Like all these books it gives you enough information to get you started on exploring the man and the movement he was part of. I don't think you can fully understand Martin Luther in just the few pages written here, but it is a start. I wondered if it would mention anything about his view of Judaism, which it did briefly mention so that was a big plus. If you want to discover facts of early leaders of the Reformation then this is a good starting point.
November 15, 2025
For better or worse, Luther changed the world
As a life-long Roman Catholic, I have some points of contention with Martin Luther. However, I do understand some of the issues that Luther had with the Catholic Church during his lifetime. Unfortunately, the brevity of this book didn't lend itself to details of Luther's life that would provide a more accurate picture of who Luther really was
As a life-long Roman Catholic, I have some points of contention with Martin Luther. However, I do understand some of the issues that Luther had with the Catholic Church during his lifetime. Unfortunately, the brevity of this book didn't lend itself to details of Luther's life that would provide a more accurate picture of who Luther really was
February 21, 2018
A very good and honest summation of Martin Luther's !life and impact. On the Reformation
This was a great overview of Martin Luther. If you are new to church history this book will help lay some groundwork to build around and upon.
It is a great refresher for a student, teacher, and minister.
This was a great overview of Martin Luther. If you are new to church history this book will help lay some groundwork to build around and upon.
It is a great refresher for a student, teacher, and minister.
January 21, 2020
The father of reformation. Martin Luther !!!
Another good ebook by hourly history on the father of reformation, Martin Luther. During the medieval times it was difficult to challenge the papacy who would declare anything unorthodox as heretic, and burn you at the stake. Very brave and courageous !!!!
Another good ebook by hourly history on the father of reformation, Martin Luther. During the medieval times it was difficult to challenge the papacy who would declare anything unorthodox as heretic, and burn you at the stake. Very brave and courageous !!!!
June 17, 2021
Like Cliff Notes on Martin Luther
This is a book which is an outline of Martin Luther's life. It doesn't include many specific details about any part of his life. It provides an adequate overview. If you don't care about details, this is the book for you. I would like to know more about his personality and his teachings.
This is a book which is an outline of Martin Luther's life. It doesn't include many specific details about any part of his life. It provides an adequate overview. If you don't care about details, this is the book for you. I would like to know more about his personality and his teachings.
April 16, 2019
Short but sweet. It’s a good primer on Luther and a wonderful way to avoid pedantic works of scholarship that can kill the curious spirit with TMI! Lol! Yes, those tomes have a critical place in academia but I believe most people prefer the shorter versions at first.
April 20, 2019
actually a pretty reasonably well-done short introduction to the subject. I mean, it's not the most lyrical thing I've read, but it was short and to the point and explained all the terms involved. I've certainly read worse.
August 2, 2021
Tell no lies while proclaiming God's word and works.
Martin Luther and his intolerance of so called Godly Authority lying to the unprivileged masses is a testament of bravery and a truest lesson of ethics that modern folks should hold dear.
Martin Luther and his intolerance of so called Godly Authority lying to the unprivileged masses is a testament of bravery and a truest lesson of ethics that modern folks should hold dear.
September 10, 2021
Martin Luther: hello from beginning to end
This took me back to my university days when I studied the Reformation. I’d forgotten much of it and this was a very useful refresher course.
This took me back to my university days when I studied the Reformation. I’d forgotten much of it and this was a very useful refresher course.
April 27, 2022
Luther
The life and legacy of the Great Reformer is defined in this short summary a well done effort by Hourly History of Luther's personal life,doctrine, conflicts, and achievements are covered here
The life and legacy of the Great Reformer is defined in this short summary a well done effort by Hourly History of Luther's personal life,doctrine, conflicts, and achievements are covered here
March 15, 2018
Concise biography
I found this short biography to be most enjoyable, helping me learn about the life of Luther. I recommend it to anyone wanting an introduction to the Reformation.
I found this short biography to be most enjoyable, helping me learn about the life of Luther. I recommend it to anyone wanting an introduction to the Reformation.
April 27, 2018
not interested.
January 17, 2020
Good overview
Good overview of key elements of Luther's life. Lots of quotes help frame each chapter well and it is easily digestible.
Good overview of key elements of Luther's life. Lots of quotes help frame each chapter well and it is easily digestible.
May 29, 2020
An excellent overview of Luther
I really enjoyed this thorough but concise study of one of the most influential people in church history. Enjoy it!
I really enjoyed this thorough but concise study of one of the most influential people in church history. Enjoy it!
March 8, 2021
Several surprises
I never knew anything about Martin Luther before reading this. For me, this was full of surprises. As usual, this was well researched.
I never knew anything about Martin Luther before reading this. For me, this was full of surprises. As usual, this was well researched.
March 1, 2022
Great Read
I really enjoyed this book! It had a lot of information about Martin Luther and his life and about how he branched off from the Catholic Church.
I really enjoyed this book! It had a lot of information about Martin Luther and his life and about how he branched off from the Catholic Church.
April 27, 2022
Amazin
Not only is this book a quick read, but it cuts to the chase. I wanted to read more about Martin Luther and this book accomplished just that.
Not only is this book a quick read, but it cuts to the chase. I wanted to read more about Martin Luther and this book accomplished just that.
June 11, 2022
Noteworthy reading
Uncovered things I didn't know about Luther. Good primer on the subject and thus recommended for others to read also.
Uncovered things I didn't know about Luther. Good primer on the subject and thus recommended for others to read also.
June 9, 2023
A succinct summary of Martin Luther.
February 4, 2024
This was useful
This book was a quick read and gave me a foundation for future, more in-depth reading by and about Martin Luther.
This book was a quick read and gave me a foundation for future, more in-depth reading by and about Martin Luther.
January 11, 2022
Good
Gave a good overview of his life, warts and all. He was a very human hero. I would definitely recommend this quick read.
Gave a good overview of his life, warts and all. He was a very human hero. I would definitely recommend this quick read.
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