Scott H. Hendrix is emeritus professor of history, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of numerous works on Martin Luther and the sixteenth-century Reformation. He lives in Fearrington Village, NC.
"[A] richly detailed portrait."—D.G. Hart, Wall Street Journal
"Hendrix has written a scholarly but vivid portrait of a man who,
in a spiritual crisis, peered deep into St. Paul’s words about the
righteous living by faith, and thought he had found there a new
purpose for himself, his friends, his country and all true
Christians."—Michael Duggan, Catholic Herald
"There is a plenty of detail in this well-researched study with its
extensive cast of characters, and attention to matters as diverse
as Luther’s ability to play the lute and his vulnerability to bouts
of depression. . . . Luther’s very real humanity emerges in these
accounts."—Martin Wellings, Methodist Recorder
"Hendrix covers Luther’s life, outlines his thought and assesses
his theology. Crucially though, theology is not allowed to dominate
and we see Luther’s ideas against the background of his life and
his personal relationships."—Paul Richardson, Church of England
Newspaper
"[Hendrix] has given us a Luther who is not only an extraordinary
theologian, but also a firm friend, a demanding colleague, an
energetic administrator, a mediocre politician, and a loving, if
sometimes heavy-handed, husband and father . . . What keeps it
together is Hendrix’s sharp insights, his easy style and his
unfailing eye for telling facts or quotations."—Dr. Alec Ryrie,
Church Times
"Scott Hendrix is a veteran insider historian from the American
Protestant tradition, with the worthy aim of tackling some of the
complacent myths all families build up about their founding
fathers… an efficient performance."—Diarmaid Mac Culloch, London
Review of Books
"Hendrix here offers not only a biography of Luther, but a history
of the early Lutheran Reformation. This is indeed a good Luther
biography. As 2017 approaches, it will be by no means the last, but
the breadth and depth of insight of Hendrix’s biography will make
it very difficult to match."—Charlotte Methuen, Theology
“[Hendrix’s] intention in writing this volume, he says, was to
provide a readable, up-to-date, comprehensive but not too long
account of Luther’s life. . . he has certainly achieved this. . . A
comprehensive account, and one which is likely to become a standard
reference.”
—Kenneth Austin, Huguenot Society Journal
"One of the best things about this humane and sensitive biography
is that it sets Luther in context. Rather than the tormented hero
of romantic myth, we have a busy scholar, teacher, preacher and
writer surrounded by colleagues, friends and family, responding to
the myriad unforeseen challenges that his epoch-changing insights
had brought down on him. Enlivening circumstantial details ensure
that Scott Hendrix’s Luther truly inhabits his cultural, political
and spiritual world."—Euan Cameron, author of The European
Reformation
"I did not expect to learn much from reading yet another Luther
biography. But I was wrong. Scott Hendrix’s Luther is in
many respects a primus inter pares—establishing a point of view
that is not, in my opinion, the least of Hendrix’s achievements in
this important biography."—David Steinmetz, author of Luther
in Context
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