That he categorized Zwingli’s good faith attempts to explain himself as in any way “malicious” or “blasphemous” is patently strange, for who else would have characterized them that way? Certainly not anyone else in the room, including all those on Luther’s side. So the question remains: Was Luther being insufferably, abominably, perversely bullheaded, or was he being a divinely inspired and immovable outpost of
