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To: Zionist Conspirator

Everyone take a screenshot because I am about to defend Martin Luther - something I rarely do.

The above article says the following:

“2. Today’s Modernism comes from Luther’s belief: “all that is dogma and theological reflection is nothing other than the symbolic transcription of a collective religious experience in continual evolution.””

Yet, as far as I know, that quote never came from Luther. It does appear, however, in the passage below from a traditionalist Catholic webpage:

“Luther first overturned the traditional concept of faith. Man, wholly corrupted by original sin, is, for him, incapable of knowing the truth and loving the good. Faith does not lie in the reason and in the will, made putrid by sin, but in “fiducial faith”, which is born from a feeling of deep desperation and has its proper object the mercy of God, instead of the truths revealed by Him. Appealing to this pietistic and individualistic vision of faith, Luther and his followers make religious experience the only criterion of the Christian life. In the evangelical-Protestant tradition as a whole, religion is seen as a salvific “encounter” with God, in which subjective faith absorbs and dissolves objective faith. In the Esquisse d’une philosophie de la religion (1897) written by Auguste Sabatier (1836-1901) this writer follows through to the end the Protestant reduction of faith to feeling. The act of faith is understood as an encounter with the dark and mysterious power on which the soul depends and on which depends its destiny. All that is dogma and theological reflection is nothing other than the symbolic transcription of a collective religious experience in continual evolution.” http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/roberto-de-mattei-double-post-meltdown.html


5 posted on 06/11/2014 7:54:38 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

I’ve read a great deal of Luther, and even his familiar voice is absent from the quote.


6 posted on 06/11/2014 8:03:32 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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