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In a clear, non-technical way, this noted Reformation historian tells the story of how the nascent reforming and confessional movement sparked and led by Martin Luther survived its first battles with religious and political authorities to become institutionalized in its religious practices and teachings. Gritsch then traces the emergence of genuine consensus at the end of the sixteenth century,...

themselves with the greatest care and diligence against the poisonous infection of such security and vanity.… If they show such diligence, then I promise them—and their experience will bear me out—that they will gain much fruit and God will make excellent people of them. (BC 383:19) Worship and education are for Luther the twin pillars of Christian life. Some hindsight suggests that Luther may not have been very successful in creating models of renewed Christian life in his home territory of electoral
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