I'm half-tempted to show this to some Dutch Reformed friends of mine, but causing heart attacks is hardly nice...
Interesting discussion
Down with the heterodox.
Another good and interesting chapter. I am a Romanian Orthodox Christian myself but I am attracted more by Western Christianity than Eastern one because I have a soft spot for Western culture and literature
I'm half-tempted to show this to some Dutch Reformed friends of mine, but causing heart attacks is hardly nice...
What relevance did that one peasant republic(that had existed) in Germany have anyway?
Another good and interesting chapter. I am a Romanian Orthodox Christian myself but I am attracted more by Western Christianity than Eastern one because I have a soft spot for Western culture and literature
Reading this makes me all the more annoyed at the anti-Catholics of my youth who spoke of what they didn't know... and taught me to do the same.
It also makes me agree even more that if Trent had happened sooner we (properly) would have avoided much trouble. Though finding ourselves further along these trajectories, I do believe that us Protestants are more in the right.
And good job working on more modern translations! I find such work very useful.
Interestingly, as an American Protestant I've found myself fascinated the other direction. I spent years being curious about Orthodox Christianity, and am now getting curious about Nestorian Christianity.
@Idhrendur
I am fascinated by Orthodox Christianity in reality because is my religion but I not have read scholarly writtings about her and rest of Christianity.
Who controls eastern Findland? or did Novgorod survive long enough to become protestant?
I suppose one could consider the Reformation period as a sort of additional forging. Those denominations that survived were strengthened, those that fell by the wayside proved brittle.
Not perhaps the best analogy, but I thought of it just now reading the above.
CANON III.-If any person says that without the prevenient inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and without his help, man can believe, hope, love, and be repentant as he should, so as that the grace of Justification may be bestowed upon him; let him be anathema.
When I went to Catholic School twenty years ago, I was taught that for a long time the Holy Spirit was referred to as being the Holy Ghost and that the Holy Spirit is a modern term. So would the Canon as originally written use the term Holy Ghost instead of Holy Spirit?
The Fourth Race is born in a time of war.
Oh you should really try to get around to reading Confessions. It is a remarkably readable work, and still has a lot to say to us today about growing up and stuff even if one ignores the natural religious dimension.I've been binge reading this AAR and its strange but very informative style and I must say you've had me hooked the further I've read, learned things I never thought off (Saint Augustine having sex in mass is one particular thing I'll now remember just for its utter hilarity ). This AAR certainly reads more like a series of factual volumes found in some interdimentional library instead of just another work of fiction so bravo for going with this style!
I've been binge reading this AAR and its strange but very informative style and I must say you've had me hooked the further I've read, learned things I never thought off (Saint Augustine having sex in mass is one particular thing I'll now remember just for its utter hilarity ). This AAR certainly reads more like a series of factual volumes found in some interdimentional library instead of just another work of fiction so bravo for going with this style!
I've never been that much of a French player as I focus more on the ERE's (tragic) history, but I must say, I like this work on the first daughter of the Church. Can't wait for the next update, and the inevitable showdown between the French lilly and the Ottoman crescent. It's going to be quite a rivalry just like OTL Austria & the Ottomans for sure!
Oh you should really try to get around to reading Confessions. It is a remarkably readable work, and still has a lot to say to us today about growing up and stuff even if one ignores the natural religious dimension.