"Through careful examination of religious beliefs and practices in the German-speaking world from approximately 1400 to 1600, this book challenges the centuries old narrative of the transition from late medieval Christianity to Protestantism as a process of 'de-sensualizing' rel…
"Through careful examination of religious beliefs and practices in the German-speaking world from approximately 1400 to 1600, this book challenges the centuries old narrative of the transition from late medieval Christianity to Protestantism as a process of 'de-sensualizing' rel…
Essays that "try to cast light on Luther's thought by placing it in the context of his theological antecedents and contemporaries." Essays are based on a series of lectures given in 1983.
Luther: Man Between God And The Devil is the definitive biography of the central figure of the Protestant Reformation. Published in 1982 in Germany to great acclaim, the book portrays the controversial reformer in the context of his own time. Oberman argues that Luther is more t…
A biography of Luther. Pp. 290-297 deal with his attitude to the Jews, citing passages from his letter to Josel von Rosheim (1536), his pamphlet "Of the Jews and Their Lies" (1543), and the "Admonition against the Jews" added to his last sermon (1546). He called on rulers not to…