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1517 Media Martin Luther the Preservation of the Church Vol 3 1532-1546 by Martin Brecht James L. Schaaf
The third volume of Brechts magnificent biography describes the final fourteen years of Luthers life beginning with the accession of Elector John Frederick in 1532. The period is often treated briefly because some Reformation developments continued without him his Catholic opponents paid only partial attention to him his personality displayed great tensions and his judgment errors. Yet the preservation of the churchthose confessing the Reformation gospel being identical according to Luther with the truechurchdominated Luthers concerns.A work of immense and engaging scholarship gracefully translated by James Schaaf this volume offers comprehensive and original interpretations of Luthers private life his congregation and the church in Saxony his professorial lectures and theological controversies Bible translation Luther and the council of Trent and his later writings about the Jews and Turks. With 34 illustrations.show more