Heiko A. ... Oberman’s book Luther, the man between God and the Devil is based on the reformist Martin Luther. In this book Oberman is quite critical of many of Luthers ideas such as;
Nailing his thesis to the church door. ... Oberman states that once again Luther could have handled the situation in a better manner. ... By doing this he created hundreds of followers and made it so that Charles the fifth no matter how bad he wanted Luther gone would not be able to rid himself of the Protestants.
Oberman takes issue with the mental state, or what he perceives to be the fluctuating mental state of Luther in such instances as: As defying the Holy Roman Emperor and usually during this time the only people to do that were anarchist who were mentally sick.
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