Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities and holder of the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. His publications include Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (2006), God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (2011), and The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age (2017).

This is an interesting book... It certainly gathers together and synthesizes a useful body of literature on Luther celebrations and anniversaries, and by adopting a long perspective and chronological organization it allows the author to draw attention to some interesting continuities and discontinuities along the way.

• Introduction: The Reformation and the Remembered Past 1: 1617, 1717: Commemoration in a Confessional Age 2: A Turning Point: 1817 and the Modern Era 3: 1883: Luthermania, Germania, and the Novus Ordo Seclorum 4: A Memory Still Mutating: The Twentieth Century Conclusion: 2017?

Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities and holder of the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. His publications include Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (2006), God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (2011), and The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age (2017).

This is an interesting book... It certainly gathers together and synthesizes a useful body of literature on Luther celebrations and anniversaries, and by adopting a long perspective and chronological organization it allows the author to draw attention to some interesting continuities and discontinuities along the way.

• Introduction: The Reformation and the Remembered Past 1: 1617, 1717: Commemoration in a Confessional Age 2: A Turning Point: 1817 and the Modern Era 3: 1883: Luthermania, Germania, and the Novus Ordo Seclorum 4: A Memory Still Mutating: The Twentieth Century Conclusion: 2017?