Christian History Issue #39

Martin Luther, The Later Years

A study of the many different legacies left by Martin Luther. Articles include:

• "After the Revolution": Luther spent his later years creating a church from the forces he had unleashed.
  
• "The Gallery: A Family Album": A closer look at Luther's wife and children
  
• "Changing the Tempo of Worship": For a thousand years of Christian worship, lay people had rarely sung. Then came Luther.
  
• "The 'Weak' Man behind 'A Mighty Fortress'": In intense turmoil, Luther wrote his greatest hymn.
  
• "Re-Inventing Family Life": Martin Luther was a husband and father who turned Christians' views of marriage upside down.
  
• "A Monk Marries": Luther's wit and wisdom about his new estate.
  
• "Powerful Preaching": A sample of how Luther could bring Bible characters to life.
  
• "Christianity for Common Folk": Martin Luther captured big ideas in his Small Catechism.
  
• The Unrefined Reformer: Why was Luther sometimes bull-headed, coarse-tongued, and intemperate
  
• "Was Luther Anti-Semitic?" He is famous for his tirades against the Jews. What caused them?
  
• "Allies or Enemies": Luther's rocky relationships with his fellow reformers.
  
• "How I Pray": Counsel on approaching the Almighty.
  
• "Luther's Will and Testaments": He bequeathed statements of belief that guide millions of Christians today.
  
• "Luther's Living Legacy": What has Luther left to us, 500 years later?

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