TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image usingthe title page of the original book. The image is placed in the publicdomain.
LUTHER
Nihil Obstat
C. Schut, s.t.d.,
Censor Deputatus.
Imprimatur
Edm. Can. Surmont,
Vic. Gen.
Westmonasterii, die 10 Julii, 1913.
BY
HARTMANN GRISAR, S. J.
PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK
AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN BY
E. M. LAMOND
EDITED BY
LUIGI CAPPADELTA
Volume IV
LONDONKEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd.BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C.1915
“His most elaborate and systematic biography ... is not merely a book to bereckoned with; it is one with which we cannot dispense, if only for its minuteexamination of Luther’s theological writings.”—The Athenæum (Vol. I).
“The second volume of Dr. Grisar’s ‘Life of Luther’ is fully as interesting as thefirst. There is the same minuteness of criticism and the same width of survey.”The Athenæum (Vol. II).
“Its interest increases. As we see the great Reformer in the thick of his work,and the heyday of his life, the absorbing attraction of his personality takes hold ofus more and more strongly. His stupendous force, his amazing vitality, his superhumaninterest in life, impress themselves upon us with redoubled effect. We findhim the most multiform, the most paradoxical of men.... The present volume,which is admirably translated, deals rather with the moral, social, and personal sideof Luther’s career than with his theology.”—The Athenæum (Vol. III).
“There is no room for any sort of question as to the welcome ready amongEnglish-speaking Roman Catholics for this admirably made translation of the firstvolume of the German monograph by Professor Grisar on the protagonist of theReformation in Europe.... The book is so studiously scientific, so careful to base itsteaching upon documents, and so determined to eschew controversies that are onlytheological, that it cannot but deeply interest Protestant readers.”—The Scotsman.
“Father Grisar has gained a high reputation in this country through the translationof his monumental work on the History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages,and this first instalment of his ‘Life of Luther’ bears fresh witness to his unweariedindustry, wide learning, and scrupulous anxiety to be impartial in his judgments aswell as absolutely accurate in matters of fact.”—Glasgow Herald.
“This ‘Life of Luther’ is bound to become standard ... a model of every literary,critical, and scholarly virtue.”—The Month.
“Like its two predecessors,