Martin Luther is rather obviously one of the Great Polemicists. Indeed, if the standard of greatness is influence, then he is inarguably the Greatest Polemicist. His most important works inaugurate the Reformation. Those works are fun to read; he goes for blood. Consider the title alone of one of them: The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. In that essay, Luther draws on the Old Testament narrative to argue that the Pope and his minions in Rome are the equivalent of the Babylonians who … [Read more...] about Bondage of the Will