"and dealt a severe blow to the entire concept of clerical interpretation and doctrinal scholarship."
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Is that true? There's a very extensive literary and mystical tradition in Protestant Germany after Luther.
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He certainly destroyed a lot of the local saints' cults and other cultural texture of the faith and imo Christendom has longed desperately ever since for something like it, it's basically the driver of both fundamentalism and orientalism imo
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That didn't seem to help Spain or Italy much.
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Pardon?
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I mean, with longstanding and well-established Catholic powers, including the odd and mystical saints practices, they had no shortage of fundamentalism and of course, antisemitism.
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Sure, sure, but it's a different *manifestation* thereof; the unique shape of modern Evangelical Christian fundamentalism - and indeed the patterns the OP criticized - evolves directly from Luther imo.
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Enh That's collapsing a tremendous amount of history Evangelicals are their own peculiar beast, they're not much like Lutherans at all
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At the very least, they're a modern evolution of Wesleyans, who were their own peculiar reaction to Calvinism (a later echo of the Arminian Remonstrance), which was itself its own particular reaction to Luther's Reformation
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Like look if you think Calvin was better than Luther, Calvin is much more of a grandfather of evangelicalism than Luther (and the social leveling ideology you admire in Calvinism is very much in evangelicalism's DNA)
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