In search of a gracious God -- Luther's early red-hot pen -- Dissenting groups and why they opposed Luther -- The enemies within: Luther and the Wittenberg radicals -- "The soft-living flesh of Wittenberg": Luther's struggle and the revolutionaries -- "I commanded them to be killed": Luther and the peasants -- Two riders of the human will: Luther opposes Erasmus and humanism -- Luther knew and opposed the Evangelical Anabaptists -- "I told you so": Luther and the Anabaptist kingdom in Münster -- Much ado about spirit and matter: Luther and the spiritualists -- Three in one or one in three? Luther opposes the rationalists -- To believe what you like? Luther and his opponents on tolerance and religious liberty -- "Drive them out of the land!" Luther on the Jews -- The cross and the crescent: Luther opposes the Turks and Islam -- "An institution of the Devil!" Luther's last battle against the Papacy -- Conclusion and evaluation -- Epilogue
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index
