course, Luther was often bombastic, and we should not always take him at his word. But even if he would not have denied the Christianity of all those who differed with him on the Supper, he would nonetheless have regarded them as seriously deficient in their understanding of the Christian faith. In fact, Luther and his world are deeply alien to the sensibilities of modern evangelicalism. Luther’s piety was rooted in the gathering of the church, in the Word preached more than the Word read, and in