Source Material for “A Mighty Fortress”

I had intended to post several weeks ago this bibliography of the research sources I used when I wrote A Mighty Fortress (1988). In 1991 when we premiered it (after fairly aggressive editing), I created some supplemental material for congregations to have ahead of our performance for their information: namely, the list of source material, and a fact sheet of historic people and terms.

But then I misplaced my last remaining copy of the source material list. I was sad about that, since this was typed many computers ago, and I had no way of reconstructing the list. After 25 years, I have only vague memories of which books I used when doing the original research.

But in doing a deep clean of my living room after the show closed, lo and behold! I found what I had been seeking, buried on top of the piano, under some copies of music from Prisoner of Joy. So I am putting it here, in memoriam…and I need never again worry about it being lost!

SOURCE MATERIAL

Bainton, Roland H.     Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther.  New York:  Abingdon Press, 1950.  (This is a fantastic biography, and was my primary source.)

Brokering, Herbert and Roland Bainton.    A Pilgrimage to Luther’s Germany.  Minneapolis:  Winston Press, 1983.  (mostly photos)

Gritsch, Eric W.    Martin–God’s Court Jester.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.

Kerr, Hugh Thomson, Jr., ed.    A Compend of Luther’s Theology.  London:  Westminster Press, 1943.

Luther, Martin.    Three Treatises from the American Edition of Luther’s Works. (“To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation”‘; “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”; and “The Freedom of a Christian”.)  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976 (7th printing)

Olivier, Daniel.    The Trial of Luther.  Translated by John Tonkin.  St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1978.

Rupp, Gordon E.    Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms.  New York: Harper & Row (Harper Torchbooks), 1964.

FOR FURTHER READING

Dickens, A.G.    Reformation and Society in Sixteenth Century Europe.  Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.  1966.

Tim Dowley, ed.,   Eerdman’s Handbook to the History of Christianity.  Grand Rapids:  Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1977.

Grun, Bernard, ed.    The TImetables of History, a Horizontal Linkage of People and Events.  New York:  Simon & Schuster (Touchstone Books), 1982 edition.

Luther, Martin.    The Bondage of the Will.  Translated by J.I. Packer and O.R. Johnston.  Old Tappan, NY:  Fleming H. Revell Co., 1957.

———————.    Commentary on Romans.  Translated by J. Theodore Mueller.  Grand Rapids:  Kregel Publishing, 1988 (12th printing).

———————.    The Place of Trust.  Translated by Jaroslav Pelikan;  Martin E. Marty, ed.  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1983.