Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. xvii, 542. $35.00.)

In a book that takes Luther's life and thought down to the time of the Bondage of the Will (1525), the late Professor Marius makes three claims. First, citing the works of Alberto Tenenti and others, he contends that the fear of death was widespread in Luther's era not because European men and women dreaded appearing before God in judgment, but because they dreaded that, contrary to the teachings of religion, death might ...

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