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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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If the “Cartesian moment” is that moment when as Francis Barker has asserted the self can be conceived of without the body, it is also the moment when it can be conceived of without ritual; by what might be called a Cartesian logic, the later English Reformation places efficacious signs of salvation elsewhere than church ritual, first in a literalist reading of Scripture, and ultimately in the individual conviction of the particular truths of Scripture and in the self who experiences it
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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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