Facts About Luther Patrick F. O’ Hare

Facts About Luther Patrick F. O’ Hare

Author: Patrick F. O’Hare

Year: 1916

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that were it not for such a work as this, the general reading public— both Catholic and Protestant—might have suffered this rehabilitation (of Martin Luther) without protest; but Monsignor O’Hare has thrown a bridge over the chasm which now separates the Luther of 1917 from the Luther of 1883, and the contrast is so prominent that his con¬ clusions cannot be ignored. The reader is brought in these pages into r, close, intimate relation with Luther’s friends and opponents, and every statement is based on the most reliable authorities in the Protestant school of historical science. The whole gamut of the apos¬ tate’s life is here described in a calm, impartial man¬ ner which permits no gainsaying. There are many hideous scenes in Martin Luther’s life; there are scenes of coarseness, vulgarity, obscenity and degrading im¬ morality which can never be forgiven because of a “rugged peasant nature.” The man stands revealed as the very opposite of all that Protestantism has claimed for him. But the reader may take up this work with the assurance, that here there is no unfair attack upon the Founder of Protestantism. It is not with a spirit of bitterness