Noah Reimer’s Reviews > Reformation Thought: An Introduction > Status Update

“In the late 1400’s there was widespread confusion over what was merely “theological opinion”and what was “Catholic dogma”. The boundary lines between what was orthodox and what wasn’t became so hopelessly confused that it was virtually impossible to treat people like Luther as heretical…. The scene for future religious confrontation was set by the doctrinal pluralism of the late medieval church” 39