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Nathan Suire
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“The church likes things defined, things that manifest clearly what they imply and that don’t hold surprises. Above all, Rome, which has the principal responsibility for the Catholic communion and thus a responsibility to “test spirits,” is reticent about whatever is new. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why Rome has long shown so much hesitations with respect to ‘ecumenism’.”- p 205
— Jul 21, 2018 02:19PM
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Nathan Suire
is on page 274 of 400
"Unquestionaly, Luther had a kind of theological genius, but he allowed himself to be guided and finally ruined by polemic. He allowed himself to be pushed into becoming the founder of a church and into rethinking the meaning of Christianity all by himself. The fatal logical of his postion was this: he had to reinvent Christianity not with the whole church and within it- but against the church..." p 270
— Jul 28, 2018 06:47PM
Nathan Suire
is on page 261 of 400
“One of the fundamental errors of Jansenism was to take its inspiration from the texts of St. Augustine without maintaining sufficient docility toward the concrete life of the contemporary church.” P 261
— Jul 27, 2018 09:11AM
Nathan Suire
is on page 252 of 400
“Protestantism, in its desire to give ‘glory to God alone,’ has come to see in Christianity nothing but the act of God and not the aspect of a given reality; so it has emptied out the full meaning of the church, postulating simply Pentecost, but without its ecclesial consequences.” P 252
— Jul 27, 2018 09:08AM
Nathan Suire
is on page 228 of 400
“The schismatic reformer is someone who, having made his principle for truth not the reality of the church but his own ideas and his own judgement, takes for his motto: ‘Remain as you are, and judge everything by your own thinking’.”p 228
— Jul 21, 2018 02:24PM
