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On Oct 31, 1517, an mysterious monk nailed a theological pamphlet to a chapel door in a little university or college town and set in motion a process that helped usher in today's world. Within a few years Luther's ideas got distributed like wildfire. His tries to reform Christianity by returning it to its biblical root base split the European Church, divided European countries, and polarized people's values. Yet Luther was a deeply flawed individual: a fervent believer suffering from spiritual doubts, a prolific writer whose translation of the Bible would form the German terms yet whose disorders on his competitors were vicious and bad mouthed. Perhaps astonishingly, the person who helped create today's world had not been modern himself: for him the devil had not been a shape of talk but a genuine, physical presence. Acclaimed historian Lyndal Roper clarifies how Luther's impact can be understood only against the backdrop of the times. As an excellent biographer, she gives us the flesh-and-blood shape, unveils the often contradictory internal causes that drove Luther ahead, and the dynamics they unleashed, which converted a small take action of protest into a challenge against the power of the Chapel.
