Luther and the False Brethren

Notes: This book "responds in part, according to the author, to Heinrich Bornkamm's counsel that 'biographical research in the future must expend its main effort on the old Luther'" (p. 109). "In a sense it is surprising that after some forty years of scholarship in the 'Left Wing of the Reformation' there appears a book which tells the story of Luther's clash with the radicals as one-sidedly as this one does, failing to be more critical especially of Luther's attitude and actions toward his one-time friends and followers, the down-trodden masses of the 16th century, and fellow evangelicals who, like Luther, sincerely sought to bring about reform and religious (at least Protestant) concord in Europe" (p. 110-111).