| Sumario: | Martin Luther's ideas about vocational identity were forged in the early years of the Reformation, but were nuanced and reshaped throughout his life as new challenges arose. In this article, I examine the ways in which his conflict with Andreas Karlstadt over the propriety of an academic lifestyle from 1523 to 1525 provided an essential element of Luther's masculine identity, an element that he continued to draw on throughout his life of lecturing. By 1535, Luther had come to a fully-formed masculine vocational identity, and Karlstadt had become the foil against which Luther measured himself and all other Christian men.
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