Download or read book Martin Luther: The preservation of the Church, 1532-1546 written by Martin Brecht and published by Augsburg Fortress Pub. This book was released on 1985 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive study, the author accomplishes two important tasks. First, he contrasts the theological perspectives of earlier biographies with the results of more modern research into Luther's socio-economic context, psychological relationshps, late medieval and humanist thought, university curricula, and political factors. Second, in keeping with his theory that the historical discipline "must make its results accessible to a wider audience" unless it wishes to encourage the "historical amnesia which it so often laments", the author communicates the findings of technical Reformation scholarship to the public in a comprehensible style. -- Book jacket.