by Volker Leppin 

Abstract

Luther’s marriage took some of the Reformer’s companions by surprise. Indeed,Luther had for a long time attempted to get Katharina married to someone else,but this did not work out. The Reformer’s own resistance to marriage might have been overcome through his parents’ influence. Luther drew his foremost understanding of marriage, as a remedy against sin, from Peter Lombard’s entences, thus demonstrating that the Lutheran theology of marriage was more a transformation of medieval  hought than a break from it. The marriage of a monk and a nun caused an uproar and was an example of Luther’s new understanding of Christianity.

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