Here I Stand

“I cannot and will not recant!…Here I stand.” This inspiring story paints a vivid portrait of the crusader who spearheaded the Reformation. Considered one of the most readable biographies of Martin Luther, this volume looks at the German religious reformer and his influence on Western civilization. Martin Luther entered a monastery as a youth and as a man shattered the structure of the medieval church, speaking out against the corrupt religious practices of the time. His demand that the authority for doctrine and practice be scriptures, not popes or councils, ignited the great Reformation. Accused of heresy and threatened with excommunication and death, Luther refused to recant. In his crusade to eliminate religious abuses, he did more than any other man to establish the Protestant faith. With sound scholarship and penetrating insight, Roland Bainton examines Luther’s widespread influence.