controversy with the radicals he employed dialectics again. In something like preaching, however, he had liberated himself from them in favor of a spontaneous manner of speaking. Luther here belatedly uncovered something of the exaggerated claims of an academic enterprise that intended to encompass all of reality with an abstract way of thinking divorced from practice, although much of this was only playing an intellectual game. Exceptionally interesting in this context is the indication that Luther
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