Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

by Roland H. Bainton

Overview

The authoritative, unforgettable biography of Martin Luther, the great religious leader, who entered a monastery as a youth and who, as a man, shattered the structure of the medieval church. Luther spoke out against the corrupt religious practices that then existed. His demanded that the authority for doctrine and practice be Scriptures, rather than Popes or Councils, echoed around the world and ignited the Great Reformation. Accused of heresy and threatened with excommunication and death, Luther maintained his bold stand and refused to recant. In his crusade to eliminate religious abuses, he did more than any other man to establish the Protestant faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780452011465
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/1995
Series:	Festival Bks.
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	237,674
Product dimensions:	5.35(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Roland H. Bainton was a Protestant church historian. He wrote more than thirty books on Christianity.

Table of Contents

Here I Stand I. The Vow
At Home and School
Religious Disquiet
The Haven of the Cowl
II. The Cloister
The Terror of the Holy
The Way of Self-Help
The Merits of the Saints
The Trip to Rome
III. The Gospel
The Failure of Confession
The Mystic Ladder
The Evangelical Experience
IV. The Onslaught
The Indulgence for St. Peter's
The Ninety-Five Theses
V. The Son of Iniquity
The Dominican Assault
The Case Transferred to Germany
The Interviews with Cajetan
Threatening Exile
VI. The Saxon Hus
The Gauntlet of Eck
The Leipzig Debate
The Endorsement of Hus
VII. The German Hercules
The Humanists: Erasmus
Melanchthon and Dürer
The Nationalists: Hutten and Sickingen
VIII. The Wild Boar in the Vineyard
The Sacraments and the Theory of the Church
Prosecution Resumed
The Bull "Exsurge"
The Bull Seeks Luther
IX. The Appeal to Caesar
Publication of the Bull
Against the Execrable Bull of Antichrist
The Freedom of the Christian Man
X. Here I Stand
A Hearing Promised and Recalled
The Emperor Assumes Responsibility
Invitation to Luther Renewed
Luther Before the Diet
The Edict of Worms
XI. My Patmos
At the Wartburg
The Reformation at Wittenberg: Monasticism
The Mass
The Outbreak of Violence
XII. The Return of the Exile
Turmoil
The Invitation to Come Back
The Return to Wittenberg
XIII. No Other Foundation
Nature, History, and Philosophy
Christ the Sole Revealer
The Word and the Sacraments
The Menace to Morals
The Ground of Goodness
XIV. Rebuilding the Walls
The Callings
Economics
Politics
Church and State
XV. The Middle Way
Hostility of the Reformed Papacy
Recoil of the Moderate Catholics: Erasmus
Defection of the Puritans: Carlstadt
The Revolutionary Saints: Müntzer
Banishment of the Agitators
XVI. Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Great Waters
Rivals: Zwingli and the Anabaptists
Religion and Social Unrest
Luther and the Peasants
Müntzer Foments Rebellion
The Debacle and the Effect on the Reformation
XVII. The School for Character
Katherine von Bora
Domesticity
Children and Table Talk
Views of Marriage
Consolations of Home
XVIII. The Church Territorial
Dissemination of the Reform
Practical Church Problems
The Godly Prince
The Protest
Protestant Alliance: The Marburg Colloquy
The Augsburg Confession
XIX. The Church Tutorial
The Bible Translation
Doctrinal Problems in Translation
Catechisms
Liturgy
Music
Hymnbook
XX. The Church Ministerial
Preaching
Sermon on the Nativity
Exposition of Jonah
Prayer
XXI. The Struggle for Faith
Luther's Persistent Struggle
His Depressions
The Way of Indirection
Wrestling with the Angel
The Rock of Scripture
XXII. The Measure of the Man
The Bigamy of the Landgrave
Attitude to the Anabaptists
Attitude to the Jews
The Papists and the Emperor
The Measure of the Man
Bibliography
References
Sources of Illustrations
Index

Editorial Reviews

Readers interested in a full biography of Luther should consult Roland Bainton's classic Here I Stand.”—Augustine J. Curley, Library Journal

From the Publisher

Martin Luther, the monk who "abandoned his cowl," turned out to be one of the most important figures in religious history. He was also a human being. In his 1950 biography, Roland H. Bainton set out to show that man—who was troubled by depression and the demands of monastic life. Luther's dramatic life would be a blessing for any audiobook narrator, and Tom Weiner takes full advantage. He delivers the words of Luther with the full fury of a troubled yet conscientious man, revealing all of the ex-monk's anger and passion. Seeing the start of Protestantism through the eyes of this tortured, often depressed reformer could be inspirational. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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