{"product_id":"martin-luther-catholic-dissident","title":"Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn Bragg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 31st of October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther pinning his 95 'Theses' - or reform proposals - to the door of his local university church in Wittenberg. Most scholars now agree that the details of this eye-catching gesture are more legend than hammer and nails, but what is certainly true is that on this day (probably in a letter to his local Archbishop in Mainz), the Augustinian Friar and theologian issued an outspokenly blunt challenge to his own Catholic Church to reform itself from within - especially over the sale of 'indulgences' - which ultimately precipitated a huge religious and political upheaval right across Europe and divided mainstream Christianity ever after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA new, popular biography from journalist Peter Stanford, looking at Martin Luther from within his Catholic context, examining his actual aims for Catholicism as well as his enduring legacy - and where he might fit within the church today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Peter Stanford makes the life of Luther into a thrilling narrative, told from a modern Catholic perspective' Antonia Fraser\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HODDER \u0026 STOUGHTON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973368451238,"sku":"9781473678484","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/martin-luther-catholic-dissident-9781473678484-28524612518066.jpg?v=1656047321","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/martin-luther-catholic-dissident","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}