Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017), by the historian and biographer Eric Metaxas, was written, in part, to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Reformation, a critical period in the history of Western thought in which the intellectual period of modernity started to be adopted by religious thinkers.
Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017), If You Can Keep it (2017), Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life (2021) and Letter to the American Church (2022). He has also written humor, children's books and scripts for VeggieTales.