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A significant new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's profession The Making of Martin Luther requires a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential intellects of the 16th hundred years. Richard Rex traces how, in a focused burst of creative energy in the few years encircling his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure German college or university developed a startling new interpretation of the Religious faith that brought to a finish the dominance of the Catholic Cathedral in Europe. Luther's personal mindset and cultural context played out their parts in the whirlwind of change he unleashed. But for the man himself, it was always about the ideas, the reality, and the Gospel. Focusing on the most intensely important years of Luther's profession, Rex teases out the threads of his often paradoxical and counterintuitive ideas from the tangled thickets of his writings, describing their value, their interconnections, and the astonishing charm they so rapidly developed. Yet Rex also models these ideas tightly in the context of Luther's personal life, the cultural landscape that designed him, and the practices of middle ages Catholic thought from which his ideas burst forth. Lucidly argued and elegantly written, The Making of Martin Luther is a splendid work of intellectual record that renders Luther's earthshaking yet sometimes challenging ideas accessible to a new generation of listeners. Writer bio: Richard Rex is teacher of Reformation record at the School of Cambridge and a fellow of Queens' University. His catalogs include Tudors: The Illustrated Background and Henry VIII and the British Reformation. He lives in Cambridge, Great britain.
