Martin Luther's Table Talk

"Table talk" is the English translation given to the German word Tischreden, the collected thoughts and comments by Martin Luther during the latter years of the great sixteenth-century Reformation.

Compiled in volume 54 of the works of Martin Luther published by Fortress Press, the collection is a daily compilation of the conversations, proclamations, and dissertations by the Doctor with his friends, colleagues, students, and fellow mavericks at the daily dinner table.

In these daily reports and summaries, Luther comes across as being the wise old professor-reformer whose economy of language is indicative of a man who has fought the battles and envisions a direction that will change the life of the Western Church. The atmosphere of mentor and student, colleague and stranger, ex-priests and new clerics - all at table talking what interests them the most: the new Christian Church.