Originally Posted by Tom
As for your example of Martin Luther, although I agree with your assessments concerning him taking the bull by the horns, he never the less had some blind spots as well. For example, his stating that the book of James was a book of straw.
Well, that isn't exactly true that Luther considered the epistle of James a "book of straw". He made that comment once and then retracted it and never repeated it again during his remaining years. See Six Points On Luther's "Epistle of Straw". grin

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