It was, in part, Martin Luther’s love of words that made him so attractive to me as a subject for biography. Read the gospels for yourself, Luther urged, and make your own mind up about what they mean. We have been doing it ever since, often in works of fiction that have given us some memorable Protestant characters. But his creator, John Updike, was a Protestant to his bones, first a Lutheran, then a Congregationalist and finally an Episcopalian (Anglican). • Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident by Peter Stanford is published in paperback by Hodder & Stoughton, priced £10.99.

Source: The Guardian October 31, 2017 06:56 UTC