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1517 - Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation (Hardcover)
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1517 - Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation (Hardcover)
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Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle
Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous
events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant
Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring
symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest
against the abuse of power. But did it actually really happen? In
this engagingly-written, wide-ranging and insightful work of
cultural history, leading Reformation historian Peter Marshall
reviews the available evidence, and concludes that, very probably,
it did not. The theses-posting is a myth. And yet, Marshall argues,
this fact makes the incident all the more historically significant.
In tracing how - and why - a 'non-event' ended up becoming a
defining episode of the modern historical imagination. Marshall
compellingly explores the multiple ways in which the figure of
Martin Luther, and the nature of the Reformation itself, have been
remembered and used for their own purposes by subsequent
generations of Protestants and others - in Germany, Britain, the
United States and elsewhere. As people in Europe, and across the
world, prepare to remember, and celebrate, the 500th anniversary of
Luther's posting of the theses, this book offers a timely
contribution and corrective. The intention is not to 'debunk', or
to belittle Luther's achievement, but rather to invite renewed
reflection on how the past speaks to the present - and on how, all
too often, the present creates the past in its own image and
likeness.
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