Brooks Schramm

Luther the Anti-Semite

History & Biography

“A common contemporary reaction after having once encountered the depth of Luther’s antagonism and hatred toward the Jews and Judaism is one of dumbfounded stupor and the sense that one can do nothing more than repudiate such attitudes. Proposing not a way out but rather a way forward, Alon Goshen-Gottstein reads Luther both as a model of where religion can go very wrong as well as a reflection of fundamental dynamics still at work in relations between faith communities and their views of the religious other even today. A remarkable book on numerous levels.”