Thursday, April 12, 2007

Martin Luther? Anyone?

Can anyone out there in cyberspace recommend a good bio of Martin Luther? I don't like dry and scholarly texts so can you maybe recommend one that's fun to read? I know that's probably too much to ask but I had to try.
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3 comments:

adam said...

well, i don't know of any non-scholarly books, which i think are fun, but the recently made movie called Luther is really good and as accurate as any movie.

7:12 AM
What Would Jesus Glue? said...

I've seen the movie. It was good.

8:05 AM
Anonymous said...

The most assigned book on Martin Luther in college classes is Here I
Stand, A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton, but I believe it’s a bit tedious. Luther: An Experiment in Biography by H.G. Haile is much more readable. There is a smaller biography that has been recently published that might be good. It's Martin Luther: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives is a series of biographies of the famous)by Martin Marty. For easy reference to his works, though, you might find Martin Luther: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought by Stephen J. Nichols useful.

I can highly recommend The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid
MacCullough. It's huge, though.

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