Luther, Vol. 6 of 6

A scholarly examination of Martin Luther's vision for education and society in the twilight of the Reformation. Grisar, drawing on Luther's own writings and addresses, presents the Reformer's impassioned case for compulsory schooling, linguistic study, and the moral imperative of training the young. These pages reveal Luther not merely as a theologian who shattered Christendom, but as a practical reformer obsessed with the next generation's souls and minds. His arguments for secular and religious education alike sound strikingly modern, even as they emerge from sixteenth-century anxieties about learning's decline. This volume illuminates the quieter, more practical dimension of Luther's legacy: the belief that spiritual renewal required literate, educated believers capable of reading scripture themselves. For scholars of the Reformation or historians of education, Grisar offers essential insight into how one of history's most influential figures imagined the relationship between knowledge, piety, and civic virtue.