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Luther’s breakthrough had a dazzling, corrosive simplicity to it. The power of those twin principles, “faith alone” and “Scripture alone,” lay in the word “alone.” There is nothing and no one else other than God incarnate in Jesus Christ worth attending to. Being a Christian means throwing yourself abjectly, unreservedly, on Christ’s mercy. Living a Christian life means living Christ’s life—that is, abandoning all security and worldly ambitions to follow him “through penalties, deaths and hell.”
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― Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World
― Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World
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As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of the old systems but rather progressed to an even more urgent defense of objective boundaries and quantifiable truths. In “The Secularization of Language in the Seventeenth Century,” Margreta de Grazia has shown how this pursuit of certainty led to a skepticism about language itself that dissociated words from God and deverbalized God’s message, prompting think
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― Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
― Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
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