The hour and the man 1483-1517 -- Sturm und Drang -- New earth and new heaven : new hell -- Monkery -- Through open gates into paradise -- The crisis 1517-1521 -- Out of love and zeal for truth -- Positively no chance of a revocation -- The time for silence is past -- Christ will give me the courage to despise these ministers of satan -- Liberty and restraint 1521-1526 -- Junker George -- The parting of the ways -- The brief reign of Ploughman Jack -- Wars and rumours of wars 1527-1532 -- Alliances and misalliances -- Family squabbles -- Defining the church -- Vanity of vanities 1533-1546 -- The problems of peace -- A death too late -- And afterwards -- God's word and God's world.