Luther was contemptuous of reason and the Aristotelian tradition, believing that reason was the devil's and that Aristotle and scholasticism had led Christianity astray and done great evil to Christian believers
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“luther in the first place was rather contemptuous of reason he often thought that the tradition of athens led people astray... as he described it reason was the devil's and he thought that aristotle had led christianity astray and that the scholastics had done a great evil”
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