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...More important, many of his ideas about reform and the Christian life seem remarkably relevant today, and the best scholarship on Erasmus has been the work of 20th century historians. The most recent example is Erasmus of Christendom (Scribners, $6.95), an affectionate appreciation by Yale Reformation Historian Roland H. Bainton, best known for his biography of Martin Luther, Here I Stand. In Bainton's view, the current revolution in the church makes the Erasmian message even more pertinent-and perhaps more poignant-than ever before...
...Lutheran and the author of Katherine, Wife of Luther, I spent many years studying the times and life of this great, God-sent man. The only thing I can't quite agree with, even though Roland Bainton has said it, is that Luther was by the time of his death "an irascible old man." The last two weeks before Luther's death he was obliged to spend in Mansfeld to restore peace between two quarreling brothers. During these two weeks he wrote five lively letters to Kate, telling her how much he loved her and extolling...
...more than other reformers, Luther towers over his century by the sheer force of his personality, Churchillian in its scope and complexity. Yale's Roland Bainton, whose Here I Stand is one of the best modern biographies of the reformer, says that "Luther is not an individual. He is a phenomenon." Dr. Jerald Brauer, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, calls Luther "one of the three or four greatest figures in the history of Christianity, perhaps the greatest prophetic figure in post-Apostolic Western Christendom...
...supporter, Prince Philip of Hesse. He denounced reformers who disagreed with him in terms that he had once re served for the papacy. His statements about the Jews would sound excessive on the tongue of a Hitler. By the time of his death in 1546, admits Biographer Bainton, Luther was "an irascible old man, petulant, peevish, unrestrained, and at times positively coarse...
...kill them not for the sake of killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill the young men as well as the old ... I look upon it as a war for purity." In the U.S. writes Yale Historian Roland H. Bainton, "Jesus was dressed in khaki and portrayed sighting down a gun barrel...