Martin Luther: An Introduction to His Life and Work

by Bernhard Lohse, R.C. Schultz (Translator)

English, German (translation)

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Michael’]

Lohse is a deeply unintelligent person. His history of Luther’s reception is a mere list of obsolete scholars with Lohse’s dumb opinions on them. He’s an Orthodox Lutheran who takes it for granted that everyone else is as well but isn’t as good at it as him. The Catholics are full of “prejudice”, Hegel “distorted” Luther because he had other ideas which weren’t from Luther and the Marxists “don’t understand” because they refuse to ‘admit’ that Luther really was “directed” by divine “forces”. There’s no space to name anything they got wrong but he does fill pages with his personal brand of nonsense.

[Jeff]

This guy was pretty important, or so it would seem, after reading the first 40 pages...religion is scary!