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How Luther Became the Reformer (Paperback)
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How Luther Became the Reformer (Paperback)
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No story has been more foundational to triumphalist accounts of
Western modernity than that of Martin Luther, the heroic
individual, standing before the tribunes of medieval
authoritarianism to proclaim his religious and intellectual
freedom, Here I stand! How Luther Became the Reformer returns to
the birthplace of this origin myth, Germany in the late nineteenth
century, and traces its development from the end of World War I
through the rise of National Socialism. Why were German
intellectualsespecially Protestant scholars of religion, culture,
and theologyin this turbulent period so committed to this version
of Luthers story? Luther was touted as the mythological figure to
promote the cultural unity of Germany as a modern nation; in the
myths many retellings, from the time of the Weimar Republic
forward, Luther attained world-historical status. Helmer finds in
this construction of Luther the Reformer a lens through which to
examine modernitys deformations, among them anti-Judaism,
anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism. Offering a new interpretation
of Luther, and by extension of modernity itself, from an ecumenical
perspective, How Luther Became the Reformer provides resources for
understanding and contesting contemporary assaults on democracy. In
this way, the book holds the promise for resistance and hope in
dark times.
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