"This book is an expanded version of my earlier book, Luther and the Radicals: Another Look at Some Aspects of the Struggle Between Luther and the Radical Reformers (WLU Press, 1974). The book was originally my M.A. thesis, completed and accepted in 1961 by the Department of History of the University of Manitoba under the guidance of the late Professor T. Oleson."--Preface. Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index.
Contents:
In search of a gracious God -- Luther's early red-hot pen -- Dissenting groups and why they opposed Luther -- The enemies within : Luther and the Wittenberg radicals -- "The soft-living flesh of Wittenberg" : Luther's struggle and the revolutionaries -- "I commanded them to be killed" : Luther and the peasants -- Two riders of the human will : Luther opposes Erasmus and humanism -- Luther knew and opposed the Evangelical Anabaptists -- "I told you so" : Luther and the Anabaptist kingdom in Mùˆnster -- Much ado about spirit and matter : Luther and the spiritualists -- Three in one or one in three? : Luther opposes the rationalists -- To believe what you like? : Luther and his opponents on tolerance and religious liberty -- "Drive them out of the land!" : Luther on the Jews -- The cross and the crescent : Luther opposes the Turks and Islam -- "An institution of the Devil!" : Luther's last battle against the Papacy.
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