Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora
Katharina von Bora. Defiant and determined, refusing to be intimidated. . . In many ways, it was this astonishing woman (not even her husband, Martin Luther, could stop her) who set the tone of the Reformation movement.

In this compelling historical account of a woman who was an indispensable figure of the German Reformation—who was by turns vilified, satirized, idolized, and fictionalized by contemporaries and commentators—you can make her acquaintance and discover how Katharina's voice and personality still echoes among modern women, wives, and mothers who have struggled to be heard while carving out a career of their own.

Author and teacher Ruth Tucker beckons you to visit Katie Luther in her sixteenth-century village life:

  • What was it like to be married to the man behind the religious upheaval?
  • How did she deal with the celebrations and heartaches, housing, diet, fashion, childbirth, and child-rearing of daily life in Wittenberg?
  • What role did she play in pushing gender boundaries and shaping the young egalitarianism of the movement?

Though very little is known today about Katharina. Though her primary vocation was not even related to ministry, she was by any measure the First Lady of the Reformation, and she still has much to say to Western women and men of today.

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Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora
Katharina von Bora. Defiant and determined, refusing to be intimidated. . . In many ways, it was this astonishing woman (not even her husband, Martin Luther, could stop her) who set the tone of the Reformation movement.

In this compelling historical account of a woman who was an indispensable figure of the German Reformation—who was by turns vilified, satirized, idolized, and fictionalized by contemporaries and commentators—you can make her acquaintance and discover how Katharina's voice and personality still echoes among modern women, wives, and mothers who have struggled to be heard while carving out a career of their own.

Author and teacher Ruth Tucker beckons you to visit Katie Luther in her sixteenth-century village life:

  • What was it like to be married to the man behind the religious upheaval?
  • How did she deal with the celebrations and heartaches, housing, diet, fashion, childbirth, and child-rearing of daily life in Wittenberg?
  • What role did she play in pushing gender boundaries and shaping the young egalitarianism of the movement?

Though very little is known today about Katharina. Though her primary vocation was not even related to ministry, she was by any measure the First Lady of the Reformation, and she still has much to say to Western women and men of today.

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Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora

Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora

by Ruth A. Tucker
Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora

Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora

by Ruth A. Tucker

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Katharina von Bora. Defiant and determined, refusing to be intimidated. . . In many ways, it was this astonishing woman (not even her husband, Martin Luther, could stop her) who set the tone of the Reformation movement.

In this compelling historical account of a woman who was an indispensable figure of the German Reformation—who was by turns vilified, satirized, idolized, and fictionalized by contemporaries and commentators—you can make her acquaintance and discover how Katharina's voice and personality still echoes among modern women, wives, and mothers who have struggled to be heard while carving out a career of their own.

Author and teacher Ruth Tucker beckons you to visit Katie Luther in her sixteenth-century village life:

  • What was it like to be married to the man behind the religious upheaval?
  • How did she deal with the celebrations and heartaches, housing, diet, fashion, childbirth, and child-rearing of daily life in Wittenberg?
  • What role did she play in pushing gender boundaries and shaping the young egalitarianism of the movement?

Though very little is known today about Katharina. Though her primary vocation was not even related to ministry, she was by any measure the First Lady of the Reformation, and she still has much to say to Western women and men of today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310532156
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 06/27/2017
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ruth A. Tucker (Ph D, Northern Illinois University) has taught mission studies and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Calvin Theological Seminary. She is the author of dozens of articles and eighteen books, including the award-winning From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya. Visit her website at www.Ruth Tucker.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Katharina von Bora for All Seasons 7

1 "Jesus Cage": Incarceration in a Cloister 15

2 "Here I Stand": Religious Revolution in Germany 30

3 "A Wagon Load of Vestal Virgins": Escaping the Convent 46

4 "A Bitter Living": Daily Life in Old Wittenberg 62

5 "Pigtails on the Pillow": Marriage to Martin Luther 76

6 "Neither Wood nor Stone": A Reformation Husband 90

7 "From Katie, a Little Heathen": Motherhood at the Manse 104

8 "Morning Star of Wittenberg": At Work before Dawn 118

9 "Hew an Obedient Wife out of Stone": Pushing Gender Boundaries 131

10 "Stop Worrying, Let God Worry": Worrywart of Wittenberg 145

11 "Fifty Gulden" Bible Reading: Undervalued Spirituality 157

12 "No Words Can Express My Heartbreak": Widowhood and Final Years 171

Brand Bora: Concluding Thoughts on Katharina 185

Notes 189

Index 205

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