Excellent article. Thanks for sharing. I have always been intrigued by the question: \u00abWhy did God allow Protestantism?\u00bb<\/p>\n
But, when reading your text, one has the impression that modernity is a phenomenon that appeared in the history of mankind independently from Christianity. Protestantism learned how to deal with it while Catholicism dragged its feet.<\/p>\n
But modernity is not independent from Christianity. Modernity is simply secular Protestantism or, even better, pure Protestantism when you take as many Catholic elements as you can.<\/p>\n
When you take the tenets of Protestantism until their logical conclusion, you get modernity. The rejection of hierarchy (every believer is a priest and has the authority to interpret the Bible) was in Luther and leads to equality, non-discrimination, liberty, relativism, democracy and the rejection of God as a supreme authority. It took some centuries to derive all the implications but the seed was in Luther (although Luther didn’t realize).<\/p>\n
So I don’t think God created Protestantism to deal with modernity, because there would have not been modernity without Protestantism.<\/p>\n
Am I wrong? What are your ideas about that? I take this opportunity to thank you for your writings, which are always enlightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing. I have always been intrigued by the question: \u00abWhy did God allow Protestantism?\u00bb But, when reading your text, one has the impression that modernity is a phenomenon that appeared in the history of mankind independently from Christianity. Protestantism learned how to deal with it while Catholicism dragged its feet. But … Sigue leyendo About Luther as the founder of the Enlightenment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}