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Katharina and Martin Luther: The Radical Marriage of a Runaway Nun and a Renegade Monk is unavailable, but you can change that!

Their revolutionary marriage was arguably one of the most scandalous and intriguing in history. Yet five centuries later we still know little about Martin and Katharina Luther's life as husband and wife. Until now. Against all odds, the unlikely union of a runaway nun and a renegade monk worked, over time blossoming into the most tender of love stories. This unique biography tells the riveting...

fear; the thought of the Eucharist filled him with nausea. There were times Luther felt that he hated God. He knew that “hating God was the ultimate blasphemy … he was hopelessly damned,” yet he couldn’t help himself.[30] Luther was terrified of his God. The hours, weeks, and months Luther spent in his cell only exacerbated these inclinations toward despair. With so much time on his hands to brood over his sins and confess and reconfess, he spiraled into an obsessive cycle that led him deeper and
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