Life of Luther: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Life of Luther, credited to Gustav A. Just, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Life of Luther by Gustav A. Just. (Translated by Frederik William Herzberger; Martin Samuel Sommer.) Read in English by Larry Wilson; ggeisler1; Ruth P.; Xiaoyan Arrowsmith; Michael Fassio; Shashank Jakhmola; Lola Janie; Gillian Hendrie; KevinS This short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis, is a standard resource for students, young and old. The first five chapters give a swift moving, succinct overview of church history up to Luther’s time, and the final two chapters deal with the church after Luther’s death. Martin Luther is presented in a favorable, but objective light and his influence appreciated as the primary leader of the Reformation. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Life of Luther
• Author credits: Gustav A. Just
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 3:32:20

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• church history
• theology
• protestantism
• Reformation
• popery

Track guide

1. 01 - The Christians of the First Century — 12:12
2. 02 - The Persecutions — 11:03
3. 03 - Constantine and the Spreading of Christianity in Germany — 6:03
4. 04 - Popery and Monkery — 9:57
5. 05 - The Forerunners of the Reformation — 10:59
6. 06 - Luther's Childhood — 5:29
7. 07 - Luther's Student Days — 12:43
8. 08 - Luther in the Cloister — 8:35
9. 09 - Luther as Teacher — 10:58
10. 10 - Luther the Reformer — 11:05
11. 11 - Luther the Mighty Warrior — 10:51
12. 12 - Luther the Staunch Confessor — 14:28
13. 13 - The Fanatics and the Peasants' War — 10:18
14. 14 - The Colloquy at Marburg — 4:49
15. 15 - The Augsburg Confession — 11:54
16. 16 - Bible, Catechism, and Hymnbook — 12:32
17. 17 - Luther's Family Life — 17:41
18. 18 - Luther's Last Days and Death — 10:33
19. 19 - Afflictions of the Lutheran Church in Germany after the Reformation — 10:16
20. 20 - The Lutheran Church in America — 9:54

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