From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Eric Metaxas has written numerous award-winning and best-selling children's books, as well as scripts for VeggieTales videos. A graduate of Yale University, his writing has been published in Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Books & Culture, and featured on Chuck Colson's Breakpoint radio program. He is a popular guest on various radio and television programs and lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
“A meticulously researched and detailed account of Luther’s life
and times . . . a very human portrait. . . . Metaxas is a
scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. The result
is full, instructive, and pacey.”
—The Washington Post
“Metaxas knows how to tell a story and how to develop characters,
and this talent makes his narrative at once gripping and accessible
. . . an excellent glimpse of the whole of Luther’s life.”
—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
“Mr. Metaxas has a knack for capturing the heart and mind of his
subjects . . . his conclusions about the 16th-century revolutionary
are uniquely Metaxas, a deep and thoughtful writer with much to
teach the world.”
—The Washington Times
“A new magisterial biography . . . another epic work [from Eric
Metaxas] . . . Extensively researched . . . A beautifully balanced
separation of fact from fiction.”
—Hugh Hewitt
“If you had to make a list of five people who shaped the modern
West, Martin Luther would be on it. Yet almost everything you think
you know about Luther is wrong, as Eric Metaxas shows in this
brilliant biography. This is an amazing story, beautifully told.
You’ll emerge wiser.”
—Tucker Carlson, host of Tucker Carlson Tonight
“When Martin Luther made it possible to read the Bible for
yourself, he did more than anyone else to create the future. Read
this book for yourself to understand the story we’re all still
living through.”
—Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal, entrepreneur, and author of Zero
to One
“A marvelous, brilliant book that is equal parts biography,
theology, political philosophy, and cultural history. With a light
and rapid touch that nonetheless is capable of conveying deep
truths and insights, Metaxas deftly blends these many elements into
a narrative that reads as compellingly as a novel. I imagine that
Luther himself—not an easy man to please—would be deeply impressed
by this master portraiture.”
—Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of
the Great War
“Brilliant . . . powerful . . . a must read.”
—Mike Huckabee
“A very, very good book.”
—Fox News
“Metaxas’s Martin Luther is a breathtaking achievement
and a gripping read. Bold, fast-paced, and magisterial like its
hero, yet always stylish and witty like its author, this account
blows the cobwebs off long-settled expectations, and helps us to
understand the man who shook the medieval world and helped to shape
the modern world.”
—Os Guinness, author of Impossible People
“Eric Metaxas has blessed us with yet another indispensable
biography. With his customary verve and elegance, profound
reverence, and biting wit, Metaxas’s Martin Luther is an education
in the meaning of man’s relation to God. It makes Luther’s life
come alive and illuminates how deeply that life has affected our
own.”
—Bret Lott, bestselling author of Jewel and nonfiction editor of
Crazyhorse magazine
“As with his seminal work on Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, in this
extraordinary work on Martin Luther, reveals those nuances that
made Luther the force that he was. As the details gather in the
book, you soon feel the presence of the man himself.”
—Dr. Gerald L. Schroeder, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish
Studies Aish HaTorah’s Discovery Seminar
“This massive but eminently readable biography of Luther deserves
no less an adjective than ‘formidable.’ Eric Metaxas is to
religious biographers what Pixar is to cartoons.”
—Peter Kreeft, author of Catholics and Protestants: What Can We
Learn from Each Other?
“Extraordinary. A tour de force.”
—Johnnie Moore, Jr., founder of The Kairos Company
“If you wish to know why Martin Luther is remembered as one of the
most consequential figures in history, and why Eric Metaxas has
emerged as one of the most prominent storytellers of our
generation, you’ll find the answers in this book. Eric’s skill as a
writer and biographer are on full display here, even as he corrects
the myths and secures the history of a monk who changed the
world.”
—John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for
Christian Worldview
“One of the most engaging, inspiring, and entertaining books on
Luther I've ever read. Every page a joy.”
—J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC
“Deeply researched and surprising.”
—Tampa Bay Times
“Metaxas is the best storyteller among the Luther biographers.”
—WORLD magazine
“Outstanding . . . full of clever turns of phrase and humor that
makes the incredible story of Luther all the more accessible.”
—ChristianHeadlines.com
“A biography designed to peel back the myths and reveal Luther as
the fascinating and influential man he was . . . A fast, easy
read.”
—The Houston Chronicle
“Metaxas offers something different and special . . . the author’s
fast-paced style and attention to interesting details sets this
450-page book apart.”
—Institute for Faith, Work & Economics
“Turns some centuries-long legends upside down.”
—The Blaze
“A masterful portrait of a seminal figure.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“A meaty autobiography of the Reformation leader. Metaxas brings
his flair for epic biography that was on such impressive display in
his 2010 book, Bonhoeffer . . . Metaxas offers something
different and special.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Highly readable, fast-paced . . . cheerful.”
—Publishers Weekly
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