 Leibniz also offers a moderate reading of Luther’s claims concerning the differences between revealed truths and the mysteries of the Gospel on the one hand, and reason on the other (1710 [1985: §49, p. 101; §67, pp. 110–11]). Rather than attributing this view to Luther, therefore, Leibniz goes on to suggest that it is later theologians in various traditions, as well as figures such as Pierre Bayle, who had made the opposition of faith and reason into a sharp one. Leibniz himself tries to blunt this opposition by appealing to a distinction between what is above reason in the sense that reason cannot fully comprehend it, and what is contrary to reason, arguing that while matters of faith may fall into the former category, they cannot fall into the latter, so that 