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...Christendom, the moment in which lightning struck Martin Luther was almost as crucial as the episode of the Damascus road. In Here I Stand (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $4.75), a new biography of the founder of the Reformation in Germany, Roland H. Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...
...Luther was more than a great religious figure, according to Bainton's book. He was one of the master builders of modern Germany, both for good and for ill. He was a literary genius. And he was an immense, complicated personality, with room inside for half a dozen...
...defies biography. The writer of it should have both the religious passion to comprehend how a man who sometimes seemed almost a devil could also be almost a saint; and the theological dispassion to talk, without raising his voice, about the most controversial Christian of modern times. Biographer Bainton has plenty of dispassion, and also a handsome way of writing. His Luther biography is easily the most readable in English; if it fails to understand all the Martin Luthers and to reconcile them in one man, that was more than Luther could do, either...
...preacher, Martin Luther gave vigorous, arresting sermons, strong with earthy instances. On the theme of Christmas he sometimes preached for more than a month-from the beginning of Advent to Epiphany. In the recently published Martin Luther Christmas Book (Westminster Press, $2.50), Translator Roland H. Bainton has arranged samplings from these sermons on the Nativity. Excerpts...
Puritan Love. The Protestant Reformation was responsible for the development of a third Christian attitude toward marriage-companionability. Martin Luther maintained that, in the eyes of God, a monk may be no more holy than a married man. Luther's own marriage, says Bainton, was chiefly to exemplify this teaching. "I am not madly in love," Luther once said, "but I esteem my wife...