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 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.

Martin Luther: A Spiritual Biography

Selderhuis, Herman

Biographies & Memoirs

Crossway

There are many biographies of John Calvin, the theologian - some vilifying him and others extolling his virtues - but few that reveal John Calvin, the man. Professor and renowned Reformation historian Herman Selderhuis has written this book to bring Calvin near to the reader, showing him as a man who had an impressive impact on the development of the Western world, but who was first of all a believer struggling with God and with the way God governed both the world and his own life. Selderhuis draws on Calvin's own publications and commentary on the biblical figures with whom he strongly identified to describe his theology in the context of his personal development. Throughout we see a person who found himself alone at many of the decisive moments of his life - a fact that echoed through Calvin's subsequent sermons and commentaries. Selderhuis's unique and compelling look at John Calvin, with all of his merits and foibles, ultimately discloses a man who could not find himself at home in the world in which he lived.

John Calvin, a Pilgrim's Life

Leaders & Notable People

English summary: On 19th October 1512, Martin Luther received his doctorate of theology under the chairmanship of Andreas Bodenstein of Karlstadt. Throughout his life, Luther remained tied to the Universityof Wittemberg. The Reformation movement was initially driven by and through his concern with academic issues, which also from the outset pertained to the relationship between theology and the other sciences.  The contributors to this volume describe the relationship between faith and reason--or ratio and pietas--which was assessed in different ways in the Reformation, described by some as oppositional and by others as harmonious. Moreover, reformers referred back to medieval philosophical and theological points of view to relate reason with belief. The way in which this was done was definitive, for example for the establishment of universities, relations between science and the Church and in matters concerning the Bible and preaching. The lectures printed in this volume address the question of the relationship between the Reformation and reason before a European, interdenominational horizon.  German description: Am 19. Oktober 1512 wurde Martin Luther zum Doktor der Theologie promoviert. Die reformatorische Bewegung ging mit ihm und durch ihn zunächst von akademischen Anliegen aus, die auch von Anfang an das Verhältnis zwischen der Theologie und den anderen Wissenschaften betrafen.  Nicht zuletzt das 500. Jubiläum der Promotion Luthers nehmen die Beiträger des Bands zum Anlass, das Verhältnis von Reformation und Rationalität neu zu untersuchen. Die Autoren beschreiben unter anderem den wissenschaftlichen und reformatorischen Rahmen, in dem Luthers Promotion stattfand, und fragen zudem nach der Beziehung von Reformation und Rationalität in der lutherischen und in der calvinistischen Orthodoxie.

Reformation und Rationalität (Refo500 Academic Studies, 17) (German Edition)

History

World

V&R Academic

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