of individual autonomy that its critics want to blame on the Reformation. Extreme interpretive egoism is the view that privileges my interpretations simply because they are mine.83 The question is whether Martin Luther and others who read the Bible under the rubric sola scriptura are interpretive egoists. I do not think that Luther, though (obviously!) an individual, was an interpretive egoist, and in chapter 4 I will refute the myth that the priesthood of all believers serves as a charter for mass
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