Nathan Suire’s Reviews > True and False Reform in the Church > Status Update

"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

“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

“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

“Every reform that is the fruit of pure deduction, like any system elaborated purely by mental reflection, even if the deduction and the construction are drawn from dogmatic sources, will almost infallibly lead to something that will betray the concrete reality of the church and that the church will reject.” p 217