The Revolt of Martin Luther / Robert Herndon Fife.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fife, Robert Herndon, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1957]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the life of Martin Luther more than four hundred years after his death. Looks at the Reformation as Luther set it in motion and gave it its character.

Contents:

Frontmatter

1. Early Days at Home and School

2. The Schoolboy Abroad

3. Early Years at the University

4. The Scholastic Learning

5. Entrance into the Cloister

6. The Novitiate Year

7. Brother Martin of the Eremites

8. Student of Theology

9. The Young Lecturer

10. The Journey to Rome

11. Professor and Preacher at Wittenberg

12. Interpreter of Augustine and Paul

13. The Final Break with Scholasticism

14. The Attack on Indulgences

15. In Battle with the Dominicans

16. The Hearing at Augsburg

17. An Attempt at Compromise

18. The Leipzig Disputation: The Prelude

19. The Leipzig Disputation: The Combat

20. The Leipzig Disputation: The Aftermath

21. A Battle of Polemics

22. Humanistic Friends and Allies

23. Growth as Teacher and Preacher

24. The Rising Tide of Revolt

25. The Attack on the Sacraments

26. The Break with Rome

27. Appeal to the Secular Classes

28. The Final Break with Church Tradition

29. The Bull and the Counterattack

30. Book-Burning on Rhine and Elbe

31. Prelude to the Diet at Worms

32. The Diet in Session

33. Martin Before the Diet

34. Refusal to Compromise

Conclusion

List of Abbreviations

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89706-5

OCLC:

1100453147