Volume 30, Number 2 · February 17, 1983
Sleepwalker
By J.M. Cameron
Luther: A Life
by John M. Todd
Crossroad, 396 pp., $17.50
Martin Luther: An Illustrated Biography
by Peter Manns, translated by Michael Shaw, with an introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan
Crossroad, 223 pp., $50.00
On only two things about Martin Luther is there general agreement. He was a man of immense personal force and great magnetism whose work was a necessary condition of the Reformation schism; and his translation of the Bible and the great chorales and hymns that he wrote are constituents of modern German culture. He has been the subject of much Protestant hagiography. 'Here I stand, I can do no other' (something, Peter Manns tells us, he never said) is as famous as Galileo's 'But it does move' and Archbishop Cranmer's reported gesture of putting first into the flames the hand that had signed the recantation.
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