from the three decades immediately before the Reformation.[125] Luther and especially Bucer blamed Catholic miracles on the devil,[126] and later Protestants carried this reproach even further.[127] The Reformers’ antisupernaturalism, never adopted by Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christians, served their immediate polemical situation against Catholic apologetic use of miracle claims.[128] Early Protestants sought to discredit medieval miracles, for the most part wholesale; while critical inquiry might have proved more helpful, the reaction against miracles associated with the traditional
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