Martin Luther – The Man and His Work – McGiffert

Today’s free book in A.C. McGiffert’s substantial biography of the German Reformer Martin Luther.

My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.

Arthur Cushman McGiffert [1861-1933], Martin Luther. The Man and His Work. London: W.C.T. Fisher Uwin, 1911. Hbk. pp.397. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

1. Boyhood and Youth
2. Life as a Monk
3. Visit to Rome
4. Preacher, Professor, and District Vicar
5. The Awakening Reformer
6. The Attack on Indulgences
7. The Gathering Storm
8. The Beginning of the Conflict with Rome
9. The Leipsic Debate
10. The Developing Controversalist
11. The National Reformer
12. The Prophet of a New Faith
13. The Final Break with Rome
14. The Diet of Worms
15. At the Wartburg
16. The Conflict with Radicalism
17. The Peasant’s War
18. The Break with Humanism
19. Marriage
20. Home Life
21. The Formation of a New Church
22. Luther and Zwingli
23. At Coburg
24. Religion and Politics
25. The Bigamy of the Langrave Philip
26. The End and After

Main image: Martin Luther in 1526 (frontispiece)