Lutheran Quarterly

Autumn 2024 Featured Book Review

Luther For Everyone: Who He Was & Why He Still Matters.

By Hans Schwarz. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024. 210 pp. + xv

Hans Schwarz concludes his presentation of Martin Luther, originally commissioned by the Roman Catholic publisher Schöningh specifically as a book for non-Lutherans, with this description: Luther “was a Christian who stood in the tradition of Paul and Augustine, and in this tradition made the loving care of God, who is the Creator of the whole universe, to us humans shine anew. . . . [Luther] belongs first of all to us Christians and also to all those who are still inspired by his understanding of life being lived in service to others” (210).

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