Four Points on Luther – Simeon Zahl

I've spent so much of the past ten years reading, thinking with, and writing about Martin Luther's theology, and teaching his thought at three universities. But I confess at this point I have very little interest in the idea of Luther, or in hagiography, or in his specific denominational legacy, or in his personality, or in his politics, or in his insults or his beer or whatever. And I disagree with quite a few of his main insights, and that's before we even get to the hateful stuff. But there remains no theologian I learn more from or I am more keen to teach. In the end if I am honest I am interested in Luther as a kind of artist who at his best ...