On the Reformation: Governments – Confiscation of Property and Dogmatism – Church and State

There are complaints about Luther’s ‘obstinacy’ – but without the pig-headedness, so entirely incapable of capitulation, of this one man everything might perhaps have reverted to the status quo.

Luther’s doctrine of justification, an innovation vis-à-vis the entire church up to that time, is currently actually abandoned by all Protestant theologians, even orthodox ones. In fact, it is explained in a way that the reformers and their authentic successors would damn as Papist or Arminian.