W. Ian P. Hazlett

A Great Grievance

History & Biography

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Martin Luther

History & Biography

“This richly illustrated and succinctly written book, based on anything but superficial knowledge, is very much a life of Luther for everyone. While announcing itself as a ‘spiritual biography,’ it actually presents Luther in body and soul in his day-to-day contexts. Selderhuis catches very well Luther as a reformer stumbling daily from one unconcealed existential crisis to another, often beset with spiritual, mental, religious, family, political, physical, and personality problems. Here we have the real Luther—potent prophet of God, astonishing theologian, prolific writer, and phenomenal communicator indeed, but also a flawed genius whose attributes included buffoonery, vulgarity, vindictiveness, and downright rudeness. While many have viewed the reformer as a Hercules of the faith and the thirteenth apostle, this book reminds us that Luther was also no saint and that he had no pretensions to be one.”

Nevile Davidson

History & Biography

“A distinctive feature of this elegantly written book is that it is primary-source based . . . and so constitutes an original contribution to the life and work of an eminent Glasgow minister. The book should both be illuminating for a wide spectrum of readers and add a very useful source for historians of modern Scottish church history and Presbyterianism.”

Theodore Beza

History & Biography

“This is a highly welcome induction into core Christianity as projected by Theodore Beza, Calvin’s successor. Unusually, as a French aristocrat, former poet, dramatist, lawyer, and man of the world, the convert Beza mutated into a lead Reformed voice. This elegant manual discloses that there is more to him than New Testament Greek research, predestination, presbyterian ecclesiology, and bipolar church-state relations. Recovered is Beza’s ultimate persuasion of the necessity and viability of the gospel for deranged, self-harming humanity.”