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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

Eric Metaxas

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (), by the historian and biographer Eric Metaxas, was written, in part, to mark the th anniversary of the start of the Reformation, a critical period in the history of Western thought in which the intellectual period of modernity started to be adopted by religious thinkers.

The biography follows the events that sparked the Reformation, starting with All Hallow’s Eve in , when the young monk Martin Luther nailed a list of grievances with the doctrine of the Medieval Christian church on the church door ay Worms, and ending with Luther and the rest of the Reformation’s contributions to the modern concept of human rights and religious liberty.

Metaxas begins his book with a