Early in the 1520s Hans Holbein, the great German artist and illustrator, depicted Martin Luther as Hercules Germanicus. In this image the vigorous Luther, clothed in his Augustinian cowl and wielding a deadly club, stands triumphant over several...

The German reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) was the first and greatest figure in the 16th-century Reformation. A composer of commentaries on Scripture, theology, and ecclesiastical abuses, a hymnologist, and a preacher, from his own time to the...

Luther, Martin [addendum] The renaissance of Luther studies enjoyed by the twentieth century continues apace. The massive critical, or Weimar (WA), edition of his work has recently been finished in 127 volumes. Important interpretive works have been...

Luther, Martin(1483 523, which may be brought up to date by the annual listings of the...

Martin Luther (November 10 1483 – February 18 1546) was a German monk,[1] theologian, and church reformer. He is often considered the founder of Protestantism.[2] Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by holding that the Bible is...

Martin Luther. By Martin Marty. Penguin Lives Series. New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. xv + 199 pp. $19.95 (paper). It is no surprise that the biography series Penguin Lives devotes a volume to Martin Luther. It is surprising, however, that such a small...

Martin Luther (1483--1546) joined the Order of St. Augustine in 1506. Among his teachers were councilors as well as Nominalists, and when Luther went to the University of Wittenberg, in his native Saxony, as an Augustinian professor of theology in 1508, he found...

Yolanda King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, collapsed and died. She was 51.King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, at age 51, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for...

The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day since the death of King's widow and the chief keeper of his civil rights dream was marked Monday with speeches, visits to the couple's tomb and the opening of a collection of his papers, including a draft of...

Below, Oberman outlines approaches to studying Luther and mysticism, and discusses Luther's own understanding of the role of mysticism in faith.

In the excerpt below, Lindberg gives a brief overview of the medieval worldview and the religious practices of the day, focusing on Luther's opposition to the Church's granting of indulgences for monetary donations.

In the excerpt below from a work originally published in 1970, Ebeling discusses the problem of historical periodization, suggesting a way to transcend the attempts of Ernst Troeltsch and Hegel to assign Luther to either the medieval or modern age.

This essay is about how Martin Luther was the most influential person in western civilization.

Martin Luther and his objections to the Catholic faith that led to the Reformation. Also, differences between the Lutheran and Catholic faiths and the teaching of Luther.

A history of Martin Luther's reformation efforts against the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was a huge figure in religious history. His ideas led to the formation of the Protestant movement and religion, which has since broken into many different types of churches. Luther was unhappy with the 13th century Catholic Church because he felt it had strayed too far from authentic Christianity, especially in the use of indulgences to forgive sins in exchange for money.