“When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal of the Free church college in Glasgow.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 176. Ag. 17. 860w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances, inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert Henry Newman.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 394. My. ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will make it for the general reader the standard English work on the subject.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1470. Je. 20, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important theme.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |