Martin Luther in Context

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Life and Education .......5 Luther: A life of Successful Struggle ........7 2. Luther`s Family and Home Life .........14 Education in Early Sixteenth-Century Europe ......22 Monastic Life and Monastic Theology in Early Modern Germany .......30 The University of Wittenberg........38 2. Religious and Intelectual Context ......47 Western Christianity in 1500......49 Late Medieval Piety : St. Anne, Martin Luther , and the Salvific Journey .........58 Late Medieval Theology ........66 Calls for Reform Before Martin Luther ..........74 Penance and Indulgences .......85 Luther and the Papacy .......92 Northern Humanism and its Impact ......100 Martin luther and the Printing Press .......108 3. Social and Cultural Context .............117 The Holy Roman Empire ......119 The Imperial Diet in the 1520s..........127 The German Peasants war ............135 Origins of the Schmalkaldic League .............143 The Turks .....152 Women and Gender ........160 Apocalypticism in the Sixteenth Century .........170 Jews and Judaism ........179 Luther`s Artists ..............187 Persecution, martyrdom, and Flight in Luther`s Europe ........204 4. People .......213 Martin Luther`s Magisterial Defenders ............215 Luther`s Catholic Opponents ......224 Charles v. ...............232 Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt .........240 The Wittenberg circle ..........249 Hyldrych Zwingli ...........257 5. Themes in Luther`s Thought ..........265 The Solas of the Reformation ......267 Law and Gospel .......272 Luther`s Theology of the Cross ...........283 Erasmus: Humanist and Theologian .........290 Two Kingdoms/Political Theology .......299 Implementing Reform ........307 6. Works .........315 Luther`s Treatises and Polemics ...........317 Martin Luther`s University Lectures and Biblical Commentaries .......326 Luther`s Sermons, Catechisms, and Worship Aids .............335 Luther`s Table Talk ...........344 The Luther Bible ..........350 German and latin editions of Luther`s Works : From the Sixteenth Century to the Weimar Edition ..........358 English Editions of Martin Luther`s Works ...........366 7. Reception ..........373 The Anabaptists ..........375 John Calvin and Calvinism ...........383 The English Reformation ....391 Discord and Concord: From the wittenberg Reformation to Lutheranism .................400 Luther as a German Hero ........409