Andrew Pettegree

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Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not

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Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy

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A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

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Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German