MARTIN LUTHER

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Thunderstorm
2. Chapter Two - Rome Is Burning
3. Chapter Three - Professor, Not Pawn
4. Chapter Four - 95 and Furious
5. Chapter Five - Viral Monk
6. Chapter Six - The Heretic vs The Hat
7. Chapter Seven - The Diet of Worms
8. Chapter Eight - Disappearing Act
9. Chapter Nine - Fire in the Pews
10. Chapter Ten - Kill the Peasants?
11. Chapter Eleven - Marriage and Protest
12. Chapter Twelve - Faith Alone, Scripture Alone
13. Chapter Thirteen - The Lutheran Machine
14. Chapter Fourteen - Ink and Rage
15. Chapter Fifteen - The End of the Monk
16. Chapter Sixteen - Legacy of the Hammer

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Thunderstorm MARTIN LUTHER WAS supposed to be a lawyer. His father had it all mapped out: study law, join the legal class, climb the social ladder. Hans Luther didn’t pour his life into mining copper just so his son could waste it praying. But fate, or lightning, had other plans. It was July 2, 1505. Martin was 21 years old, riding through a thunderstorm near the village of Stotternheim, when a bolt of lightning struck so close he was thrown to the ground. Terrified, soaked, and certain he was going to die, he cried out the first name that came to mind: “Help me, St. Anne! I will become a monk!” It was a desperate bargain. And he kept it. Within weeks, Martin abandoned his...