Martin Luther question/James

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I’ve been told that when Luther removed part of the Bible, he tried to also remove the book of James because of it’s passage about faith and works. Does anyone know why he wasn’t successful? This may sound stupid but I have too much on my plate right now to look up the whole Reformation so I’m hoping someone just has a ready answer haha.
 
It wasn’t just James, it was four NT books: Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation. As you can see from the contents page of Luther’s Bible, he didn’t remove them completely, he put them in a segregated section at the end.

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I’ve been told that when Luther removed part of the Bible, he tried to also remove the book of James because of it’s passage about faith and works. Does anyone know why he wasn’t successful? This may sound stupid but I have too much on my plate right now to look up the whole Reformation so I’m hoping someone just has a ready answer haha.
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And I thought Luther calling it an epistle of straw was harsh… then I found this
http://ergofabulous.org/luther/
 
Contrary to popular legend, he did not remove those books!

What he did was to downgrade them and segregate them to a lesser position - theological apartheid if you will.

His lieutenant Philipp Melanchthon was largely responsible for the New Testament being left as it was. Melanchthon wrote an extensive apologia harmonizing James with the writings of Saint Paul.
 
It’s ironic that Luther also taught the same thing as James.
 
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