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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Hermeneutics or homophobic abuse at theFrom "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. "Magnificent."The Wall Street Journal "Penetrating."The New York Times Book Review "Smart, accessible, authoritative."Hilary Mantel On October 31, 1517, so the story goes, a shy monk named