Best biography of martin luther

Reading legacies of vibrant believers from long ago is a rewarding and especially inspiring experience if those writings are biblically sound and edifying. Such is the biography “The Life and Times of Martin Luther” by D’Aubigné.

D’Aubigné was one of the many biographers of Martin Luther; however, no other biography throbs with the same spiritual vigor as D’Aubigné’s work.

For instance, take the Luther biography Here I Stand by great Yale University professor and well-known Luther scholar Dr. Roland Bainton. This is an excellent work for its vast, intriguing detail, but it was written by a scholar outside of the Reformation looking into the great movement.

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D’Aubigné, on the other hand, wrote from inside the continuing Reformation in Europe. He had been a hopelessly lost seminarian, who had even led a student protest against another who believed in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So how did he become Luther’s foremost biographer?

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