Source Material for “A Mighty Fortress”

For those who may wish to pursue further reading on Martin Luther and the Reformation era, here is a 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.

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

Bruce, F.F.  The English Bible: a History of Translations. Oxford University Press, 1961.

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.

Freedman, Harry.  The Murderous History of Bible Translations.  Bloomsbury Press, 2016

Gregory, Brad S., lecturer. The History of Christianity in the Reformation Era [sound recording: 18 CDs and outline booklet–The Great Courses].  The Teaching Company, 2000.

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.

Wagner, J.A., ed.  Voices of the Reformation–Contemporary accounts of daily life. A collection of primary source documents. Greenwood Books, 2015.