3 Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Games of State

✍ Scribed by Created by Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik; Written by Jeff Rovin

• Book ID: 107083403
• Publisher: London : HarperCollins, 1996.
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 319 KB
• Series: Op Center 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780006498445

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

In Oberman's startling portrait of Martin Luther, we meet an obstinate monk of volcanic temperament, for whom Christ and the Devil were equally real. ''Luther proclaimed the Last Days, not the modern age,'' asserts this University of Arizona history professor. The rebellious monk, we learn, called himself doctor, preacher, or professor, but never ''reformer,'' and never spoke of his movement as the ''Reformation.'' His achievement lay in ''horizontalizing'' Christian ethics by proclaiming that good works are crucial for survival in a threatened world. This weighty study gives full attention to aspects of Luther's career that other biographers have sought to minimize, such as his savage attacks on Jews and his scatological invective against the Devil. Oberman brings us closer to the real Luther. Illustrated.
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From Library Journal

Oberman believes that we can best understand Martin Luther as a man of the Middle Ages who believed that he was literally involved in a mortal struggle with the devil incarnate and that the pope was the Antichrist of the Last Days. The original German edition of this brilliant, sympathetic psychobiography of the father of the Reformation won the Historischer Sachbuchpreis, a special prize given the outstanding historical work of the decade 1975-85. Walliser-Schwarzbart's English translation is smooth and unobtrusive, and the illustrations supplement the text admirably. Highly recommended for readers willing to meet Oberman's intellectual and theological challenges.
- Richard S. Watts, San Bernardino Cty. Lib., Cal.
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