Charlot byj biography of martin luther
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Charlotte Methuen: Luther and Calvin: Religious Revolutionaries (Lion )
Errata
p. "Martin Luther was born on 10 November in Eisleben in Saxony to Hans Ludher (as he spelt his surname), the second son of a family which owned a farm in Möhra, near Eisenach, in Thuringia, and his wife Margarethe Lindemann, whose family also came from Eisenach."
p. " Returning from a visit to Mansfeld on 2 July , he narrowly escaped being struck by lightning, praying to St Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary: “Help me, and I will become a monk.” Despite the disapproval of his father, just two weeks later, on 17 July, Luther applied to the Erfurt house of the observant Augustinian hermits, entering the
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Martin Luther's Body: The “Stout Doctor” and His Biographers
LUTHER'S IMAGE AS
A monumental figure, then, was firmly established. His life story became equally heroic. Biographies of various kinds began to be written soon after his death, and they, too, conveyed a surprisingly strong sense of their hero's body. But the work that probably did the most to shape the picture of the reformer's personality, appearing at the same time as these biographies and images of Luther, was the celebrated Table Talk or Tischreden. Here, too, images played a crucial part: many versions of the classic were prefaced bygd a woodcut bust portrait of the nowfamiliar broad-shouldered reformer and an bild of him at the table with the War, it shows Luther as thin. See Geisberg and Strauss, The German Single-Leaf Woodcut, 3: , for two versions of it. The failure to man capital out of Luther's bulk fryst vatten even more striking because works from the same period, including the manuscript J
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Part I: Martin Luther
Chapter 1: Luther’s Context
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“I thank God Hebrew tongue.”
WA 1,
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“our theology church authorities”
WABr 1,
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“If any parents in the manner declared”
cited according to E. G. Rupp and Benjamin Drewery(eds), Martin Luther (London: Edward Arnold ), p.
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“Do you not hear ‘you will not do so’”
cited according to Heiko Oberman (ed.), Die Kirche im Zeitalter der Reformation (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener 5),
“They preach out of purgatory”
LW 31,
Luther efore the Diet of Worms
cited according to Rupp & Drewery (eds), Martin Luther, 56;
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“I laid a hen’s egg different breed”
Erasmus Opera (LB) LB 3,
Chapter 2: Luther’s Theology
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“I would have been to oblivion”
LW 34,
“You should know this on