Luther's Revolution: The Political and Temporal Dimensions of Martin Luther's Univeral Priesthood

Luthers understanding of the universal priesthood of believers was not simply another evangelical concept that dealt only with the office of ministry. In serving as a means for reordering the concepts of temporal authority and the temporal order it challenged the cosmological foundations of the political structure of his day. Till now history has neglected, what Montover argues, is the utterly radical nature of Luthers thought.