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From Luther to 1580: A Pictorial Account . By Erwin Weber. Text by Ingetraut Ludolphy. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1977. 224 pp. $12.95.

This book is a popular representation of the Lutheran story from Luther's ancestral origins to the publication of the Book of Concord, and is intended as an introduction to the quadricentennial celebration of that event. The story is told, as the introduction states, "with a minimum of text and a maximum of pictures." One hundred-seventy full-page illustrations graphically portray important persons, places, events, and writings of early Lutheranism. The splendid woodcuts, engravings, and paintings of the great sixteenth-century artists such as the Cranachs and Diirer are appropriately represented. Many of the pictures of buildings and places are original photographs of Professor Weber himself which have not been previously published. The text by Dr. Ingetraut Ludolphy, a Luther scholar lecturing at Leipzig, is for the most part lucid and accurate. Perhaps inevitably for such a brief and popular account, the narrative oversimplifies some important subjects, as in the description of nominalism, Luther's criticism of indulgences, the debate with Eck at Leipzig, the "radical" movement in Wittenberg, the dispute with Zwingli on the Lord's Supper. But the real value of the book lies not in the text but in the abundance of the excellent pictures which engage the reader in the dramatic events of the Reformation. They alone are well worth the price of the book.