Thirty-five Years of Luther Research

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Johann Michael Reu. Thirty-five Years of Luther Research

Thirty-five Years of Luther Research

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INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

ILLUSTRATIONS

Factors Which Brought About a New Period in Luther Research

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF LUTHER RESEARCH

II. FIELDS IN WHICH NEW MATERIAL WAS DISCOVERED

III. NEW EDITIONS OF LUTHER'S WORKS

IV. RESEARCHES ON PARTICULAR PHASES OF THE LIFE AND THEOLOGY OF LUTHER

V. THE IMPORTANT LUTHER BIOGRAPHIES

FOOT NOTES

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Johann Michael Reu

Published by Good Press, 2020

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, reached the acme in absurdity and malice by pronouncing Luther a suicide.6 What wonder, then, that men began to study the history of the Reformation, and of the life and works of Luther as never before; that the old, as well as newly-established, results of learned research, were made accessible to the cultured as well as the common people in a far greater measure than ever before? Bossert, whom we quoted above, continues: "The time demands that the history of the Reformation be given anew to the Protestant people of Germany, with the continual proof of the fallacies contained in Janssen's work." Already, in 1882, the "Verein fuer Reformationsgeschichte" was founded, which announced as its aim: "To make more accessible to the greater public the positive results of research concerning the origin of our Protestant Church, the personalities and facts of the Reformation, and the influence they asserted on all the phases of the life of the people, so that through a direct introduction into the history of our Church the Protestant consciousness may be confirmed and strengthened" (Par. I of the Statutes of the Society). Up to the present day, we have a series of more than one hundred and twenty numbers bearing the

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