pls note I do not intend an attack on modern protestantism or a defense of the medieval church here
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I think what killed me, in Durant's summary of his theology, was Luther's dismissal of Reason and elevation of Faith juxtaposed w/ his embrace of consubstantiation because transubstantiation was JUST TOO CRAZY im all for wild inconsistency but im a shiposter not a theologian
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and of course the downstream splintering of protestantism was entirely predicable but this seems to have never occurred to him and he was Mad when it happened >"Ppl should interpret the scripture as they see fit" >"Ok I interpret it differently than you" >webcomic name panel 3
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once more I have no agenda here im working through Durant's volume on the Reformation and im just struck by how lame luther seems compared to contemporaries I guess one maybe had to be kind of a meathead to see a split with the church through like this. Like,
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say, Erasmus. I love Erasmus as portrayed. Moriae Encomium: ahhhh thats the good shit. Deeply adroit, clever, funny, self-deprecating, didnt touch off a series of wars that devastated europe for a hundred years
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but, being too smart and funny as erasmus was maybe makes one unpredisposed to just boringly beat a drum calling for revolution an iota of self-doubt, and a basically playful spirit too much hermes and socrates, not enough apollo and plato
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additional context, I was raised Catholic in a place where your religion was Catholic or Lutheran and everyone was of German or Scandinavian descent what this means practically is less "I imbibed a negative view of Luther" than my childhood was something like "Luther whomst?"
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i thought about him a bit in AP European History when I was fifteen but otherwise really haven't much attended to the Reformation and listening to a narration of it now in my mid 30s is pretty interesting
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he was a prophet masquerading as a scholastic
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he was trained by catholics what do you expect
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