Vincent Evener is Associate Professor of Reformation and Luther Studies at United Lutheran Seminary. He is the co-editor of Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Reformation history, theology, and spirituality.

A notable strength of this book is Evener's detailed examination of each man's intellectual development as witnessed by his successive recorded expressions, of whatever genre.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "No one comes to the living truth except through the way of his nothingness": Mysticism at the Margins of Christendom 2. "I will choose what they ridicule": The Theme of Suffering in Martin Luther's First Theological Protests 3. "To where should he who hopes in God come, unless into his own nothingness?": Mystical Concepts, Transformed Perception, and the Wittenberg Call to the Cross up to 1522 4. "Bring about...that I may become to myself like a bitter boil": Self-Accusation and Sinking into the Divine Will in Karlstadt's Pamphlets, 1522-24 5. The "Bitter Side of Faith": Suffering and Thomas Müntzer's Critique of the Wittenberg Solas, 1517-24 6. "The Cross and the Impossibility of Faith": Suffering and Right Action in a Troubled World, 1524-25 Epilogue Abbreviations

Vincent Evener is Associate Professor of Reformation and Luther Studies at United Lutheran Seminary. He is the co-editor of Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Reformation history, theology, and spirituality.

A notable strength of this book is Evener's detailed examination of each man's intellectual development as witnessed by his successive recorded expressions, of whatever genre.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "No one comes to the living truth except through the way of his nothingness": Mysticism at the Margins of Christendom 2. "I will choose what they ridicule": The Theme of Suffering in Martin Luther's First Theological Protests 3. "To where should he who hopes in God come, unless into his own nothingness?": Mystical Concepts, Transformed Perception, and the Wittenberg Call to the Cross up to 1522 4. "Bring about...that I may become to myself like a bitter boil": Self-Accusation and Sinking into the Divine Will in Karlstadt's Pamphlets, 1522-24 5. The "Bitter Side of Faith": Suffering and Thomas Müntzer's Critique of the Wittenberg Solas, 1517-24 6. "The Cross and the Impossibility of Faith": Suffering and Right Action in a Troubled World, 1524-25 Epilogue Abbreviations