Life of Luther: Restored Classics to Go Edition

This sweeping history opens with the apostles and the birth of the early Church, tracing Christianity from Peter, James, John, and Paul through martyrdom, missionary labor, and the formation of communities marked by prayer, charity, discipline, and devotion. It then turns to the destruction of Jerusalem, portraying famine, siege, and burning temple as the fulfillment of Christ's warning, while the Christians escape to Pella in faithful deliverance. From there, the book follows the church under Nero, Decius, and Diocletian, celebrating martyrs such as Ignatius, Polycarp, and Perpetua as fearless witnesses whose suffering becomes triumph. The narrative then moves through Constantine's conversion, the Council of Nicaea, and the spread of Christianity into Germany, before exposing the rise of the papacy, the split with the Greek Church, and the corruptions of mass, purgatory, indulgences, and saint-worship. Against this backdrop, Martin Luther discovers salvation by faith alone, rejects human merit, and confronts the scandal of indulgences under Leo X and Tetzel. His Ninety-Five Theses, nailed in Wittenberg, ignite a movement that feels like dawn after darkness and set the Reformation in motion. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.