directly at the feet of the theologians of the Roman curia and indirectly at the pitiful negligence of Leo X himself.35 Luther says the experience of faith goes well beyond the acknowledgment of it as a historical virtue.36 For him, the tension that exists within a natural and spiritual ontology must be maintained, for if one denies the real and present dynamic of “Spirit in conflict with flesh” (spiritus adversus carnem), then one will not “experience the courage which faith gives a person when