Q&A: Martin Luther — valuable reformer, but his later writings about Jewish people were horrible and must be rejected; the Reformation is not reducible to one man.

Mike distinguishes Luther from the Reformation movement as a whole. He appreciates Luther's theological contributions (especially his Galatians commentary) and the 95 Theses. He explains that Protestants reject the papacy as an institution, not as a personal attack. He condemns Luther's later antisemitic writings without qualification while declining to reduce Luther entirely to them. He also notes Luther initially reached out to Jewish people hoping for conversions.