Not since the birth of Christ has an event shaken the foundations of the Western world like the Reformation. Now, 500 years after Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door at Wittenberg--the sound of which served as the thunder presaging the storm to come--Phillip Campbell, author of The Story of Civilization, casts fresh eyes on that
tumultuous time and its most influential characters.
It was truly a tumultuous time, filled with heroes, heretics, and some who were a little bit of both. It was a time of destruction and rebuilding. Some sincerely sought reform, while others sought merely to profit by it, and some--perhaps too few--used the events of the time to become saints.
In these pages meet as you've never met before:
- Martin Luther: The tortured Augustinian monk whose act at Wittenberg called forth the storm
- Thomas M
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