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5 Things You Need to Know About Katie Luther
They say behind every great man is a great woman.
The same holds true for Martin Luther. And Ruth Tucker wants to introduce her to you in her new book, Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation.
Katie emme mcininch biography of martin luther
In it, she shows how, save for Martin Luther himself, Katharina von Bora was one of the most indispensable figures of the German Reformation:
Take her and their twenty-year marriage out of the picture, and his leadership would have suffered severely.
Had it not been for the stability she brought to his life, [Martin] may have gone off the rails emotionally and mentally by the mid-1520s…Only Katharina von Bora—no other woman—could have accomplished what she did with this most unstable man.
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So who was this great woman behind the great Martin Luther? Here are five things you need to know about this First Lady of the Reformation.
Katharina Was a Nun
One year before Martin Luther himself entered the monastic life, “five-year-old K