19 February 2015, The Tablet

Luther frenzy


 
He is a former Augustinian monk who began a religious revolution almost 500 years ago. Today, Martin Luther has inspired a major manufacturing success: a plastic figure of him, costing €2.39, has become the fastest-selling toy ever for the Playmobil company of Germany. Ironic, you might think, for the man who condemned the Church’s selling of indulgences. The figure, which depicts Luther in black scholarly garb and holding a quill pen and a copy of a German-language Bible, has been m
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