Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther's language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of impending disaster knows how much a study of his personal relationship with God, sin, penance, the German people, and nature as a whole is essential to understanding the whole of the Reformation. Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (1517-1648) - 1997 VonHildebrand Institute