“Ganss suggested that Luther was given to “uncontrolled rage.” That he exhibited “psychopathic” tendencies. That he suffered “satanic delusion.” That his observations were “highly exaggerated, frequently contradictory, and commonly misleading.” That he “hated God.” And that he “blasphemed God.””
1) The idea that “the view of Luther among many if not most of today’s Catholics is informed by a polemic written by the not entirely objective Catholic clergyman Henry George Ganss” IS RIDICULOUS.
After all Ganss view was, in fact, well borne out by historical events, Luther’s own comments, earlier works before Ganss and so on. How would the author of this ridiculously ill-informed piece explain how Grisar was writing at the same time - actually years earlier too - and came to the same conclusions as Ganss??? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48995
Grisar was writing in German and might not have even known English. His work was finished YEARS BEFORE Ganss’ article and yet they come to very similar conclusions.
2) What about Herbert David Rix? His book clearly shows Luther to have had the same tendencies supposedly falsely ascribed to him by Ganss.
The author of this article seems to have no clue about the development of literature about Luther.
BAWWWWWWWWWWW.