TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —Italic text is indicated _like this_, upright text within italic passages ~like this~, bold =like this=. —The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the title page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain. LUTHER IMPRIMATUR EDM. CAN. SURMONT, _Vic. Gen._ _Westmonasterii, die 12 Martii, 1917._ LUTHER BY HARTMANN GRISAR, S.J. PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN BY E. M. LAMOND EDITED BY LUIGI CAPPADELTA VOLUME VI LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD. BROADWAY HOUSE 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C. 1917 A FEW PRESS OPINIONS OF VOLUMES I-V. “His most elaborate and systematic biography … is not merely a book to be reckoned with; it is one with which we cannot dispense, if only for its minute examination of Luther’s theological writings.”—_The Athenæum_ (Vol. I). “The second volume of Dr. Grisar’s ‘Life of Luther’ is fully as interesting as the first. There is the same minuteness of criticism and the same width of survey.”—_The Athenæum_ (Vol. II). “Its interest increases. As we see the great Reformer in the thick of his work, and the heyday of his life, the absorbing attraction of his personality takes hold of us more and more strongly. His stupendous force, his amazing vitality, his superhuman interest in life, impress themselves upon us with redoubled effect. We find him the most multiform, the most paradoxical of men.… The present volume, which is admirably translated, deals rather with the moral, social, and personal side of Luther’s career than with his theology.”—_The Athenæum_ (Vol. III). “Father Grisar has gained a high reputation in this country through the translation of his monumental work on the History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, and this first instalment of his ‘Life of Luther’ bears fresh witness to his unwearied industry, wide learning, and scrupulous anxiety to be impartial in his judgments as well as absolutely accurate in matters of fact.”—_Glasgow Herald._ “This ‘Life of Luther’ is bound to become standard … a model of every literary, critical, and scholarly virtue.”—_The Month._ “Like its two predecessors, Volume III excels in the minute analysis not merely of Luther’s actions, but also of his writings; indeed, this feature is the outstanding merit of the author’s patient labours.”—_The Irish Times._