{"product_id":"luthers-the-church-held-captive-denis-janz-9780199359530","title":"Luther's the Church Held Captive in Babylon: Latin-English Edition, with a New Translation and Introduction","description":"In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, \u003cem\u003eAddress to the German Nobility, \u003c\/em\u003e in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in \"reforming\" the Roman church. In October, he published \u003cem\u003eThe Church Held Captive\u003c\/em\u003e, and by December the deepest theological rationale appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Freedom of a Christian\u003c\/em\u003e. With these three books, the relatively unknown Friar Martin exploded onto the Western European literary and religious scene. These three works have been universally acknowledged as classics of the Reformation, and of the Western religious tradition in general. Though Reformation scholars have been reluctant to single out one as the most important of the three, Denis Janz proposes a bold case for \u003cem\u003eThe Church Held Captive\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the first entirely new translation in more than a century, Janz presents Luther's text as it hasn't been read in English before. Previous translations stifle the original text by dulling the sharpest edges of its argumentation and tame Luther by substituting euphemisms for his vulgarities. In Janz's dual language edition we see the provocative, offensive, and extreme restored. In his wide-ranging introduction, Janz offers much-needed context to clarify the role of \u003cem\u003eThe Church Held Captive\u003c\/em\u003e in Luther's life and the life of the Reformation. This edition is the most reader-friendly scholarly version of Luther's classic in the English language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Denis Janz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199359539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199359530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperbackshop UK Import\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2020","brand":"Denis Janz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795323670783,"sku":"9780199359530","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95cc578e-3077-4ba7-ac4e-8b2fb12fa8a1.jpg?v=1744947251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/luthers-the-church-held-captive-denis-janz-9780199359530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}