Title: Disappointed
Product review: I had been looking forward to Dr. Paulson's book on Luther's theology as a supplement to Roland Bainton's biography on Luther ("Here I stand") so I could get a clearer fix on Luther's ideas. Paulson's crediential as a Systematics professor suggested he'd be able to explain Luther pretty well. I was disappointed.What did Luther mean by Sola Scriptura? Is James (an epistle of straw, said Luther) scripture, or not? Or is scripture only what Luther says it is? Or?If free will doesn't exist, why do people have to make choices? Or are those choices simply illusions - a camouflage for fate? Or a manifestation of our sins? Paulson doesn't say.After plowing through most of the book, most of which came off like a commercial for Lutheranism, or worse, a polemic, I gave up.
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