Five hundered years ago, a monk named Martin Luther wrote ninety - five theses, hoping to start a discussion aout sin and repentance at the University of Wittenberg in Germany. In a few months, those questions had stirred the nations; a few years later, the continent. Today we know that those theses changed the course of both the Western church and world history. In this volume for children, Simonetta Carr tells the compelling story of this father of the Protestant Reformation, tracing his quest for peae with God, this lifelong heroic stand for God's truth, and his family life and numerous accomplishments. The Reformer's greatest accomplishment, she writes, "has been his uncompromising emphasis on the free promise of the gospel."