Protestantism Protestant Christianity : the third major branch of Christianity, after the Catholic & Orthodox, characterized by its doctrines of justification by grace through faith, priesthood of believers, & primacy of Bible (see Reformation).
... should be stressed emphatically that Meister Eckhart means more than Luther for Protestantism in the future development of a German religion.” Diederichs will also write: “In spite of the last 400 years [since Luther’s reformation], everything is still to be done.” 734 This evaluation encompassed more than Protestantism: it expressed the general feeling of bankruptcy of the established religions, and... “Do not believe that I consider the new Romanticism as the goal of all development … But why would it not be a part of the development of the present man? Together with mysticism, that is … Our Protestantism would be very different from what it is now if the theologians after Luther’s death had not been such quarrelsome blockheads … I have the strong feeling that, with my publishing house, I have to... speculation, together with the severing of the link between the German mind and the theology of revelation” was the need at a time that the last great episode in the history of global Christianity, Protestantism, came to an end. In this context a new religion was expected to be “a religion without Jewishness, without intermediaries, without dualism: a German religion of deepest inwardness”. This was to ...
... silence ) Page 304 Are they militant Protestants in that hospital? Oh, yes! There are big signs everywhere in the rooms: "He died for our sins," and verses from the Bible all over the place. Oh! They are Protestants through and through. You can hear religious chants all the time.... ( after a silence ) Those Protestants are much worse than the Catholics. I always remember... No.... But it's heartening to see a human being with such dignity... Oh, yes. ...and recounting with humor the visit of missionaries and sisters trying to convert her (because it's a Protestant hospital).... Is it? So there are bishops, nuns, and once they came into her room to try and convert her. She tells the story with such humor: "I am not afraid of death, I know we are born... but the talk turned to the Catholics, and she flew into such a rage! She shouted, "Those idolaters!..." ( Mother laughs ) It was frightful! They're worse.... I've known both, seen both: the Protestants are worse. They are much more... they're hard. Very hard. They did away ( laughing ) with all that was artistic in the Catholic religion! They've turned it into something... It's mental moralizing ...
... simplicity of Protestantism has gifted the German people with the delusion of their being the chosen people.” 360 “National Socialism is the fulfilment of what the Germans call their ‘being’”, wrote Joseph Roth. “A direct path leads from Luther by way of Frederick II, Bismarck, William II and Ludendorff to Hitler and Rosenberg … As to me, I can, with all respect for the Protestants, not see any ... disdainful designation of the neutrality treaty with Belgium]. Who cannot see already in Luther’s betrayal of the peasants, the princes and the Jews an early example of the betrayal by the Prussian-Protestant officers of their Church and the world as a whole, is no more than a naïve fool.” 361 ...
... on “of the blood”; yet the proofs of a person belonging to the Jewish race were in most cases religious registers and other documents, also concerning the ancestry of Jews who had converted to Protestantism or Catholicism, or who had become a-religious. ... of German life. The anti-Semitism which was always present is not at all proof to the contrary, because the friction between Jews and ‘Aryans’ was not half so great as, for example, that between Protestants and Catholics, or between employers and employees, or between East Prussians, for example, and southern Bavarians, or Rhinelanders and Berliners. The German Jews were a part of the German nation ...
... advantage of it. Yes, I am afraid it may only be an "intelligent" thing. Like what took place at the beginning of Protestantism. An INTELLIGENT thing, you understand: a mentalization of the opposition. Yes, I don't think there are any mystics in there—they're basically Neo-Protestants. Yes. But I can't say, I don't know them. But that's it, in fact. Page 329 But this Pope, he... robe? He must be doing it there. Oh, he's a priest.... Those priests wear the same dress everywhere, don't they? Now they've modernized all that, so they wear pants and a short neck, Protestant fashion—those are their great "reforms"! ( after a long silence ) Then he must stay on. ( silence ) Is it the cardinals who nominate the Pope? Yes. And from among themselves ...
... point discussing whether one should jump on the left or on the right!" The spark of friendship flew at once; he told me he is Protestant and his father-in-law is a very important pastor in Paris, who was invited to the Vatican to hold a meeting between Catholics and Protestants. Then we signed the agreement. I told him I attach a great importance to this book in the whole of Latin America. He told me... He never received a reply. × In 1969 to Geneva, where the Catholic Church held a "reunion" with Protestant churches. Schemings prevented P.L. from accompanying the Pope. ...
... of his being there. That's what I had told him. As for me, I'll add something. You understand, they made an attempt to unify all of Christendom, and the Pope went to Geneva to unite with the Protestants—which wouldn't have been so good. That's not the thing needed, because it would have strengthened Christianity—division takes away some of its power. It's the unification of ALL religions that's... All that gives strength to Christianity isn't good. Christianity hoped to dominate the earth, and it's this division that prevented its domination. In other words, I don't think uniting with the Protestants would help the general work of unification. And for the time being, they can't in the least conceive of anything else than putting all Christians together. Soon afterwards I am reading ...
... was further divided into orthodox Jews, following the prescriptions of their faith to the letter, and less strict or sceptical believers; then there were the apostate Jews who had converted to Protestantism or Catholicism, and who were baptized; and there were the atheist Jews, who no longer believed in a God of any kind, or maybe in the abstract God of Spinoza or of the Enlightenment’s deism. Another ...
... There's some news of P.L. He is a bit discouraged. You know that he had been excluded from the Pope's retinue just as the Pope was to make a speech in Geneva on "Christian unity" with the Protestants. So P.L. writes, "I started writing to you several times, but could not manage to end my letters. After the huge effort made to infuse the sentiments of openness that Mother had inspired me with ...
... it can be creative, also. Experience of Beauty In ancient times religion encouraged the experience of beauty as an aspect of the Divine. There were puritanical religions like Protestant Christianity and some philosophical schools that condemned beauty, or encouraged renunciation as indispensable to spirituality. But in India the Upanishad speaks of the Supreme as "Rasovai Sah" ...
... also. EXPERIENCE OF BEAUTY In ancient times religion encouraged the experience of beauty as an aspect of the Divine. There were puritanical religions like Protestant Christianity and some philosophical schools that condemned beauty, or encouraged renunciation as indispensable to spirituality. But in India the Upanishad speaks of the Supreme as "Raso vai Sah", "He ...
... [according to the famous statement of Martin Luther], because to destroy is his mission, to destroy falsehood and lay bare a new foundation of truth.” With the individualistic stage “the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age of Reason, the Age of Revolt, Progress, Freedom” 967 – the age of possible renewal and rebirth, renaissance and reformation. It is this age of breaking up of the petrified ...
... Anyhow, after the ceremony of investiture, he saw Mr. Kennedy: the first person. ( silence ) Catholicism has two things that Protestantism lacks: the occult sense (not only the sense but even a certain occult knowledge), and the Mother—the Virgin. The Protestants have something the Catholics lack: the inner divine presence. It's only through those two things that you can catch them. But.. ...
... to take up for a time with Christianity, poor irrational thing that it is, dark and deformed though it looks in the ample light of the positivist reason, because Christianity and especially Protestant Christianity will be at least a good preparatory step towards the noble freedom and stainless purities of atheism and agnosticism. But if even this little cannot be hoped for in spite of numerous famine ...
... that plan; so things "worked out" well and they killed him. The other one in Russia who had responded, Khrushchev, didn't die because he left in time! But I didn't know, I thought Kennedy was Protestant. ( Later, about a disciple who is very talkative but full of ironic wit—Bharatidi. ) ...She kept me almost an hour! She told me, "The next time, I won't chatter." So this time it was only ...
... is among the Protestants that the spiritual instinct is well-nigh lost and attempts are made to render sex a legitimate part of the holy life, at least a harmless thing which scarcely hinders the soul's growth towards God. Originally these attempts were a reaction to the hypocrisy of the medieval monks. Seeing how contorted became human nature under a celibate regime, the Protestants deemed sex un... marriage for the clergy. An honest procedure — but it erred in believing that one could truly and wholly be God's minister in the day white still being an engine of concupiscence at night. Under the Protestant influence, even those Europeans who have absorbed the atmosphere of Indian mysticism by direct contact with it seem often not quite to understand why sex is renounced by all the Yogis. One of the ...
... modern intellectuality or pushed by the Page 322 besetting Occidental impulse to search in our Indian origins for parallels to European history—even assert that the Upanishads represent a protestant and rationalistic movement away from the cumbrous ritual, the polytheistic superstition and the blind primitive religiosity of the Vedas and towards a final rationalistic culmination in the six Darshanas... the loftiness of the modern Adwaita philosophy. It would almost seem as if this old Indian movement contains in itself at one & the same time the old philosophic movement of [the Greeks], Luther's Protestant reformation and the glories of modern free thought. 1 These are indeed exhilarating notions and they have been attractively handled—some of them can be read, developed with great lucidity and... that they deny emphatically the sufficiency of material sacrifices for the attainment of the highest; but where does the Rigveda itself assert any such efficacy? From this single circumstance no protestant movement against ritual and sacrifice can be inferred, but at the most we can imagine rather than deduce a spiritual movement embracing while it exceeded ritual and sacrifice. But even this seems ...
... hideous & repellent. As for the symbol itself, its probable effect on the poor vegetarian would be to make him vomit. "What hideous nonsense," says the Protestant, "we are to believe that we are eating God!" But that is exactly what the Protestant himself does believe if he is sincere & not a parrot when he says "God is everywhere", which is true enough, though it would be truer to say everything is... blood" and the remarkable rite of the Eucharist and the doctrine of Transubstantiation which the Roman Catholic Church has founded upon it. "Corruption! superstition! blasphemous nonsense!" cries the Protestant. "Only a vivid Oriental metaphor and nothing more." If so, it was certainly an "unmeaning, artificial and silly" metaphor, nay, "even a hideous and repellent" one. But I prefer to believe that Jesus' ...
... ssed, these people, because it takes very little for them to be oriented in the right way. 2 But there are two types of difficult religion, the Christian religion (especially in the form of Protestantism), and the Jewish religion. The Jews are also out-and-out materialists: you die, well, you die, it's over. Though I haven't quite understood how they reconcile that with their God, who moreover ...
... spreading of a German mysticism adapted to the new times and going back to the in Europe unparalleled tradition of mystics like Hadewych, Meister Eckhart and Angelus Silesius. He recognized that the Protestant theologians after Luther’s death were “shallow quarrellers” who nipped Luther’s inspiration in the bud. “I have the strong feeling that I have to steer my publishing house in the direction of a deepened... I of the mystic experiencer, whose words sounded so revolutionary because they originated from the Source. “It cannot be stressed with sufficient emphasis that Meister Eckhart means more for the Protestants in the future development of a German religion than Luther”, wrote Diederichs. “Despite the past four hundred years everything is still to be done: the Reformation is still in its beginning.” 496... Dinter casually executed by the SA or SS. But Dinter went still further: a faction of National-Socialists, disillusioned by the not so nice happenings within their Party, pressed him to start a protestant Nazi movement as “the conscience of the völkisch freedom movement”. The result was the foundation of the Dinter-Bund , on 9 November 1932. Hitler would become Chancellor of Germany less than three ...
... puritans, the Protestants... dreadful! They're the worst. Catholicism still retains something of the occult sense, and after all, they have a certain adoration for the Virgin, which keeps them in contact with something that's not asuric. The last Pope, who's dead now [Pius XII], had broadened both his own mind and Church doctrine a lot: he was a devotee of the Virgin. But the Protestants turned back ...
... grounds’, but only because they were the people of the Old Testament and the precursors of Christianity” – which looks like a curious reason for his dislike. 562 “I therefore ask, gentlemen, for the Protestant French as for all non-Catholics of the Kingdom, what you demand for yourselves: freedom, the equality of rights. I ask this also for that people torn from Asia, always on the move, always outlawed ...
... image is chattering to a stone wall." The intolerant violence of this protestant rationalism and positivism makes Heraclitus again a precursor of a whole movement of the human mind. It is not indeed a religious protest such as that of Mahomed against the naturalistic, Pagan and idolatrous polytheism of the Arabs or of the Protestants against the aesthetic and emotional saint-worship of the Catholic Church... that in his conception of the gods he is kin to the old Vedic seers, though not at all a religious mystic in his temperament. The Vedic religion seems to have excluded physical images and it was the protestant movements of Jainism and Buddhism which either introduced or at least popularised and made general the worship of images in India. Here too Heraclitus prepares the way for the destruction of the ...
... war; they were strongly supported, not to say pushed, by the great industrialists and by the Pan-Germans – in fact by the whole block of nationalist reactionaries. They were also supported by the Protestant Church, which since the times of its founder, Martin Luther, had always been a nationalist Church. This Church, addressing the faithful every Sunday from the pulpit, was a very influential voice ...
... words to represent precisely the inner life. I suppose French is worse stilt: spirituel means in it "mentally sparkling" - even an atheist and materialist and sensualist can be spirituel! The Protestant Reformation had much to do with befogging the English language in regard to the inner life. The Roman Catholics had more or less accurate notions about the difference between ethical goodness and... subjective as well as objective quality of his being. That is why even the Pope who is the head of the Church is not by virtue of his mere moral and religious eminence called a saint. Among the Protestants, whoever lives a life of sexual abstinence and charity and service is a saint: often the sexual desideratum is dropped altogether and a "saintly" prelate or missionary can have his bellyful of wedded ...
... changing. The struggle of the new forces against the traditional ones is now very strong. If the Pope accepts (his entourage is against it) to go to Geneva on June 10 and take part in the Assembly of Protestant Churches, and asserts there that we are not 'the only ones to possess the truth,' I believe that will be a great step forward. But will he have the courage to accept that other religious movements ...
... It was as if I were told, "You see, there was a time when they burned you at the stake, tortured you...," memories from past lives. And those memories were associated with the recent story of a Protestant missionary who said, though not in so many words, "We worship Christ only because he DIED for men, because he was crucified for men." All this seems to have been necessary to knead Matter. ...
... and married Philips II of Spain. Both monarchs were fanatically Catholic and did their utmost to destroy the new Protestant Church in England, including people as well as books, so that the Queen was soon known as ‘Bloody Mary.’ Mary, who remained childless, knew that the whole of Protestant England rallied behind Elizabeth, for no true-blue Englishman wanted England to become a dependency of hated Spain... [^100]: ‘Elizabeth made the Protestant faith England’s official national religion and instituted the Book of Common Prayer. She also passed a law that required every subject to go to church on Sunday. At the same time she declared that she had no interest in sifting the consciences of her people. In other words, as long as everyone looked and acted like Protestants, and as long as unauthorized forms... National Library in Paris, was by François Clouet, a typical French Renaissance painter closely related to the humanistic circles. Those were the troubled times of the Reformation, when Catholics and Protestants, the people of the New Faith, were fighting each other mercilessly throughout western Europe, and when the front lines of this war of religion ran through families and marriages. Margaret was, like ...
... words to represent precisely the inner life. I suppose French is worse still: "spirituel" means in it "mentally sparkling" -even an atheist and materialist and sensualist can be "spirituel"! The Protestant Reformation had much to do with befogging the English language in regard to the inner life. The Roman Catholics had more or less accurate notions about the difference between religio-ethical goodness... objective quality of his being. That is Page 149 why even the Pope who is the head of the Church is not in virtue of his mere moral and religious eminence called a saint. Among the Protestants, whoever lives a life of sexual abstinence and charity and service is a saint: often the sexual desideratum is dropped altogether and a 'saintly' prelate or missionary can have his bellyful of wedded ...
... “Luther was a racist pure and simple”, states John Weiss, “not at all bothered that his hatred of the Jews denied the power of Christ to redeem all humanity. To him the Jew was simply not human. As the Protestant ‘German Christians’ of the Nazi movement would later claim: the blood of the Jew was beyond redemption.” 559 “A line of anti-Semitic descent from Martin Luther to Adolf Hitler is easy to draw. Both ...
... indispensable condition — a sine qua non. In the spiritual domain this was the procedure that was universally accepted and followed, although always in the name of individual freedom and free will protestant movements arose and flourished and traced their own way. But obedience to person is in the last analysis a symbol —symbol of obedience to a principle. The person signifies and embdies a principle ...
... indispensable condition – a sine qua non. In the spiritual domain this was the procedure that was universally accepted and followed, although always in the name of individual freedom and free will protestant movements arose and flourished and traced their own way. But obedience to a person is in the last analysis a symbol – symbol of obedience to a principle. The person signifies and embodies a principle ...
... look never missed any incongruity. "The first time I came to India," recounted Mother decades later, "I came on a Japanese ship. And on this Japanese ship there were two clergymen, that is, Protestant priests, of different sects. I don't remember what sects exactly, but they were both English; I think one was an Anglican and the other a Presbyterian. "Now, came Sunday." It was Sunday the ...
... “The proportion of Jewish undergraduates was high”, writes John Weiss about the last decades of the nineteenth century. “For every 100 000 males of each denomination in Prussia, 33 Catholics, 58 Protestants and 519 Jews became university students. In 1885 one student in every eight in Berlin was Jewish, though Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population. The figures were even more lopsided ...
... or a painful embarrassment. And just so shall man be to the superman.” 690 No doubt, Nietzsche knew Darwin; Walter Kaufmann even mentions that the young Nietzsche “was aroused from his dogmatic [Protestant] slumber by Darwin”. Yet, although Nietzsche accepted the possibility of transcending a given natural state, he was “consistently hostile” to Darwinism because it was a theory of chance, numbers... 1912 with the title: “Up toward the Reign of the Noble-man”, if this is how Edelmensch should be translated. The auditorium which could hold three thousand was full up to the last seat. May, a Protestant Christian, was fascinated by the East, occultism and magical powers. “A real great writer could not have been greeted more tumultuously and enthusiastically”, a reporter wrote. “May has always been ...
... 25 What is this talk of depression and weeping? Let me tell you a small true story. You must have heard of Martin Luther, the German priest who initiated the Reformation and started Protestantism as opposed to the Roman Catholic Church. Once he got into a mood of great depression. For days he would not smile and would hardly talk. One day his wife, fed up with his "blues", dressed herself ...
... below with all kinds of forms including those of animals, and these were the worshippers. It was... it was an orgy of images. But the Buddhism of the South has the austerity of Page 325 Protestantism: there must be no images. And there is no divine Consciousness, besides. One comes into the world through desire, into a world of desire, and abandoning desire one goes out of the world and creation ...
... of independence; the army and the police, for instance, were run by the state. Another important factor is that Catholic Bavaria was strongly separatist and involved in a battle for prestige with Protestant Prussia. Munich, “Athens on the Isar”, was synonymous with culture, while Prussian Berlin stood for boorishness and aberration. “Since Bismarck had founded the Second German Reich, Bavaria had been ...
... did a sketch of me. At the end of every meditation, he used to say, 'Let us now talk of the Ineffable'!" * * * Page 280 Mirra met Hohlenberg's mother also. She was a Protestant. Once she happened to be in Paris. "I had her for dinner one day. Well-well, if only you had seen that woman!" Mother said to Satprem. "I don't now recall how the talk turned to the Catholics, and ...
... out thy own salvation. That was the injunction given. Not to take anything for granted - not even God or Brahman - but to judge and see for yourself where and what is the truth. It was the first protestant reaction recorded in human history. Buddhism has sometimes been called the rebel child of Hinduism. The word need not be a term of abuse. A rebel is not always a mere destroyer, a pure negator ...
... newspaper. SRI AUROBINDO: But not a very reliable one. (Laughter) PURANI: She quarrelled with Kanai also. SRI AUROBINDO: She quarrelled with everybody. PURANI: She seems to be staying in a Protestant home in France. SATYENDRA: I had heard she was staying with a friend. SRI AUROBINDO: She was, but they started beating each other. So she went to a home where she could talk of Communism and ...
... sense or emotional desire the Truth that society has lost or buried in its whited sepulchres. It is then that the individualistic age of religion and thought and society is created; the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age of Reason, the Age of Revolt, Progress, Freedom. A partial and external freedom, still betrayed by the conventional age that preceded it into the idea that the Truth can be found ...
... was deliberately giving up the smaller claim to the status of a celebrated popular hero in order to gain the far greater status of founder of a religion.” 798 For countless Germans, especially Protestants, the Hitler religion coexisted with their belief in Christ. For many others Hitler replaced Christ. Altars to him were built in the homes, daily adorned with fresh flowers and prayed for. Letters ...
... a keen analysis of surface meanings and a rejection of pro-virginity readings, is the result in a more recent treatment of the subject. A collaborative assessment of Marian themes by Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars 12 deals with Galatians 4:4-5 along lines somewhat overlapping with Brown. After quoting the text with its ending which Brown has omitted -"so that we might receive adoption... taken up in the parallel description of Christians in v. 5 (he redeemed those under the law; he brought it about that we receive adoptive sonship)." The consensus of the Catholic and Protestant scholars involved in the discussion is: Paul betrays no knowledge of the virginal conception, but the words "born of a woman" are so neutral that they can not be posed in opposition to anyone's statement ...
... familiar mythopoeic process to the actual human mother of Jesus of Nazareth" (Essays on the Gita, Centenary Edition, p. 153, fn. I). A growing number of Christian theologians, both Catholic and Protestant, believe that the story of the virgin birth is an "his-toricising" of the theological concept that Jesus was the Son of God in a unique sense, on whom the fact of human paternity has no bearing,... p. 458. 2. Sri Ramakrishna the Great Master by Swami Saradananda, translated by Swami Jagadananda (Mylapore, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1956), p. 296. 3. For recent Catholic and Protestant opinion, see the Roman Catholic priest Raymond E. Brown's book, The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus (New York: Paulist Press, 1973), p. 24 with fn. 26 and p. 42 with fn. 52 ...
... I like your stand for your supposedly heretical liking for the poem and the spirited way you have brought in Luther. But you have got a trifle mixed up as regards the doings of that founder of Protestantism. He did not utter those words you cite - "I could do no other" - when "nailing his fateful thesis to the door". What door? His own house's? Surely not. It was of the church in Wittenberg and the ...
... revolutionaries of various ideological shades … They were able to exploit the traditional Old Bavarian separatism, for the [Catholic] Bavarians had a long history of intense dislike for Prussian Protestant Berlin”, 151 lasting to this day. It was on such a scene, still more garbled by the disoriented and dispirited social conditions in post-war Germany, that Dietrich Eckart met Corporal Hitler. ...
... heritage, while Wright tilted towards Protestant process theology and Haldane warmed to Hinduism. Dobzhansky remained a professing Orthodox Christian and, during the 1950s, embraced the efforts of Teilhard de Chardin … Lack converted from agnosticism to evangelical Protestantism in the very year he published Darwin’s Finches . Like many mainstream Catholics and Protestants, he accepted evolution to a point ...
... ” 91 Hitler’s flaming retort towards the end of the meeting to a certain professor Baumann, who had dared to defend the idea of an alliance between Bavaria and Austria, both Catholic, against Protestant Prussia, may have been less impromptu than Hitler himself would have us think. “At this juncture I felt bound to ask for permission to speak and to tell the learned gentleman what I thought. The ...
... Smith, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Peter Atkins … – names known from the covers of popular science literature. “Most are passionately anti-religious, or at least passionately opposed to modern Protestantism, which, like its adherents, they take to be the only true religion.” On Gould’s side there were Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and many of the younger scientists who had grown up during the turbulent ...
... fallacy that it is itself the largest light. For one thing, where is the certainty that what we conceive to be good for the world is really so? The Grand Inquisitors roasted Jews and Protestants in the sincere belief that they were benefiting not only the world but even the souls of their poor victims! As Bernard Shaw has been at pains to explain, even Joan of Arc was burned with the ...
... entitled the Defender of the Faith, implies reference not only to God but also to a particular brand of religion, and yet in actual working she is without any political bias prompted by the Established Protestant Church. If by secularity we mean all omission of the idea of God, Great Britain is a theocratic State. If we mean lack of religious favouritism, then she is certainly secular. India is at ...
... genesis should be ascribed rather to the Aristotelian tradition of Socratic teaching. Humanism proper was born—or reborn—with the Renaissance. It was as strongly and vehemently negative and protestant in its nature as it was positive and affirmative. For its 1 . Only the other day I found a critic in The Manchester Guardian referring to The Gita as something frigid (and confused) ...
... Only the other day I found a critic in the Manchester Guardian referring to the Gita as something frigid and confused !! Page 163 It was as strongly and vehemently negative and protestant in its nature, on one side, as it was positive and affirmative on the other. For its fundamental character – that which gave it its Very name – was a protest against a turning away from, whatever ...
... The humanists were the first to create “the Germany-Rome antithesis” (von See), which reached a climax in Luther. The Germans now felt themselves different from the Roman-Latin-Welsch peoples; Protestants would fight Catholics, Kultur would confront Zivilisation . Eventually the Germans would declare themselves the embodiment of the Spirit, some of them even affirming that they were the sole people ...
... physical attraction translates itself on the conscious plane as an equally strong repulsion. Secondly, there is the line of Substitution. Here the mind does not stand in an antagonistic and protestant mood to combat and repress the impulse, but seeks to divert it into other channels, use it to other purposes which do not demand equal sacrifice, may even, on the other hand, be considered by the ...
... When he was told that in Rome there was a plot against him because he had spoken too freely on religion, he went to that city, moved about in as exposed a manner as possible and openly defended Protestantism for two months. What cut short his continental tour was the news of civil commotions in England. He thought it base to amuse himself abroad when his "fellow-citizens were fighting for liberty at ...
... heroes and glittering courtiers, where every head was humming with diplomatic questions raised by unsettled thrones and touch-and-go balances of power in a Europe torn between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, well-established Spain and ambitious England. There was every opportunity for him to get an understanding of military science and court-life and political practice. Given an all-absorbing curiosity ...
... Mirra met Paul Richard, somewhere in 1908, through the Théons, for he too had travelled to Tlemcen to meet them. Richard was a rather ambitious humanitarian, socialist and freethinker who had been a protestant pastor in Lille and became a barrister at the Paris Court of Appeals after having obtained his law degree. In 1910 he sailed to Pondicherry apparently to canvass for the candidate there of his socialist ...
... absolutely nothing to do with spiritual life, nothing at all. ( Silence ) The first time I came to India I came on a Japanese boat. And on this Japanese boat there were two clergymen, that is, Protestant priests, of different sects. I don't remember exactly which sects, but they were both English; I think one was an Anglican and the other a Presbyterian. Page 147 Now, Sunday came. There ...
... must have evidence of the original physical unity of the two books. Grave charges against the brief for the alleged identity can be framed. To begin with: Krister Stendahl, 2 eminent Protestant commentator, who subscribes to the popular outlook on these books, proffers yet the curious information: "in no manuscripts or canonical lists is Acts attached to the Gospel." The well-known... empty tomb which is said in Luke 24:1-10 to be discovered by Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James and other women, and Page 123 reported by them to the Apostles. The Protestant theologian, Bernard W. Anderson, 15 well notes: "The apostolic sermons preserved in Acts do not mention the testimony of the women at the sepulchre, and in this respect accord with Paul's summary ...
... where she was instructed by them, worked together with them, and soon became at least their equal in occult knowledge and capabilities. She divorced Morisset and married Paul Richard, formerly a Protestant pastor. In those years Mirra was fairly active in all kinds of occult and spiritual circles. She befriended Alexandra David-Néel, journalist, fervent Buddhist and explorer-to-be, who would become ...
... fused in his philosophy his answer to the existential problem and the problem of value, and both in terms of logic. And Sri Aurobindo lived his thought and made it dynamic through his yoga. As the Protestant theologian, Otto Wolff, says: "it is Aurobindo, representing mankind, who takes that next step into evolution...by realising it in his own person...Sri Aurobindo's yogic accomplishment practically ...
... Miss Margaret Noble was born in North Ireland on 28 October 1867. Her parents were Reverend Samuel Richmond Noble and Mary Isabelle Hamilton. Samuel's father, John Noble, was by profession a Protestant priest. But he was a rebel at heart. He rebelled against the subjugation of his motherland by the British. His heart was torn to shreds at the inhuman torture inflicted upon his countrymen, not to ...
... its emphasis on the object, tends to fix the ideal - Christ - in its outward aspect and thus rob it of its mysterious relation to the inner man. It is this prejudice, for instance, which impels the Protestant interpreters of the Bible to interpret entos uinim (referring to the Kingdom of God) as 'among you' instead of 'within you'." It is a tormenting subject, perhaps best left alone, and ...
... Epistles of Paul and in Acts, Brown has expressed no opinion. Here silence appears to be consent and, along with his general attitude to Luke/Acts, it places Brown in a large company of exegetes Protestant no less than Catholic. The thesis in the present essay is threefold: (1) Paul's Luke was not the Evangelist; (2) he did not write the Acts of the Apostles either; (3) the Mark who gives... Paul's Luke from being the man generally taken to be behind the third Gospel and Acts, there is involved the disqualification of Paul's John * In fairness it must be stated that a few Protestant exegetes regard Colossians, along with Ephesians, as a post-Pauline composition by a Paulinist, dating to the end of the 1st century or the beginning of the 2nd. But the majority are of the opposite ...
... rationalism and intellectualism. It is noteworthy, however, that it started from an endeavour to restate the Vedanta, and it is curiously significant of the way in which even what might be well called a protestant movement follows the curve of the national tradition and temper, that the three stages of its growth, marked by the three churches or congregations into which it split, correspond to the three eternal ...
... moral sense or emotional desire the Truth that society has lost or buried in its white sepulchres. It is then that the individualistic age of religion and thought and society is created; the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age of Reason, the Age of Revolt, Progress, Freedom. A partial and external freedom, still betrayed by the conventional age that preceded it into the idea that the Truth can be found ...
... England because after Elizabeth it no longer answered to any genuine need; for the nation was already well-formed, strong and secure against disruption from without. Elsewhere it succeeded both in Protestant and Catholic countries, or in the rare cases as in Poland where this movement could not take place or failed, the result was disastrous. Certainly, it was everywhere an outrage on the human soul ...
... they'll be engulfed in their own magnitude! It cannot be otherwise. If, out of the need to enlarge, the Pope accepts, for instance, all the different sects (they've already started to accept the Protestants), if he accepts all those sects, ( laughing ) little by little they will either break apart or be drowned! You follow, if we look at it from above... Let's even assume it's an Asuric power—it isn't ...
... towards God. Through the practice of orison the higher levels of mystical experience may be attained. It is odd that Protestantism, especially evangelical Protestantism, should seemingly have abandoned everything methodical in this line. Apart from what prayer may lead to Protestant mystical experience appears to have been almost exclusively sporadic. It has been left to our mind-curers to reintroduce ...
... by spiritual knowledge tends to deny and, so far as it can, to destroy the truth and the experience which was contained in them. Reformations which give too much to reason and are too negative and protestant, usually create religions which lack in wealth of spirituality and fullness of religious emotion; they are not opulent in their contents; their form and too often their spirit is impoverished, bare ...
... indispensable! They are all always ready—even in the Ashram—ready to create a religion. Yes, the people T. is talking about are Ashramites. They are just as dogmatic as Catholics or Protestants.... Yes, it's the SAME thing. The same thing. It means they have understood nothing. But this: 'How can one give God a beating?' ( Mother laughs a lot ). It's funny, isn't it! But what ...
... Version quoted so far by us reads: "sister's son" (Colossians 4:10). But all subsequent translations are unanimous in setting right the mistake. For example, today's English Version on which the Protestant Canon David Edwards of Westminster Abbey bases his admirable Jesus For Modern Man 9 has: "Mark, the cousin of Barnabas." The prestigious Jerusalem Bible, which is a Roman Catholic publication... one understands the family relationship implied in the reference to Jesus' brothers (and sisters) in Mark 6:3; Matt 13:55; and John 2:12; 7:5. Were they siblings (Tertullian, Helvid-ius, modern Protestants); or were they stepbrothers (Epipha-nius) or cousins (Hegesippus, Jerome, principal Reformers)?" Out of the three courses supposedly open, the one towards "stepbrothers" is touched upon ...
... find an antithesis in every field of historical truth. From their own history they come to learn that Christianity arose as a revolt against the idolatry of the Romans, again Martin Luther and Protestantism stood out against the Roman Catholic Church. Likewise they are, as it were, eager to discover a revolt in the religious history of India. It is not that such a spirit of antithesis is altogether ...
... and indeed no sovereign could have been received with more fervent popular acclaim. It was an extraordinary triumph for Catherine. A German without one drop of Russian blood in her veins, a Protestant convert to Orthodoxy, and a usurper³, she had nevertheless been swept to the throne of the Romanovs on a wave of patriotic feeling by a people, staunchly4 xenophobic 5, especially in their hatred ...
... Infinite, she could still hardly detach herself completely from her Page 82 immediate surroundings. In the course of the voyage, among the passengers she found two Englishmen, who were Protestant clergymen of different sects. Sunday came, and while both wanted a Christian religious ceremony, they couldn't agree as to who should conduct it. One of them, perhaps the Anglican, withdrew at ...
... Problems of Early Christianity 1 The Significance of the Earliest Evidence The Protestant theologian Bernhard W. Anderson 1 writes: "The earliest literary witness of the Resurrection is given to us by Paul, especially in 1 Corinthians 15. The historical value of this chapter is great, for though 1 Corinthians was written... when he speaks of "Matthew's dependence on Mark (and upon Q, a body of Jesus' sayings in Greek, known also to Luke)..." In pointing to Q (from Quelle, German for "Source"), as does the bulk of Protestant scholarship, Brown sets little store by old orthodox attitudes. He 9 informs us: "Roman Catholics were among the last to give up defending officially the view that the Gospel was written by Matthew... reference to earlier Biblical Commission decrees, including the one which stipulated that Greek Matthew was identical in substance with a Gospel written by the apostle in Aramaic or Hebrew. A group of Protestant scholars (mostly American, e.g., W. B. Farmer) who have argued that Matthew was not dependent on Mark do not interpret Matthean priority to mean that the evangelist was an eyewitness." ...
... Prakashan, 1989, reprinted 1997; The Problem of Aryan Origins , -do-1980, reprinted 1992. Page 193 Sethna begins his examination of the birth of Jesus by pointing out that neither Protestant nor Catholic theologians exclude the fatherhood of God in case of the physical fatherhood of Joseph as Jesus' divinity is not so much a biological fact as an ontological verity out of time in God's ...
... Christ's ultimate gathering together all his followers into himself and 35.Ibid., p. 57. 36.ibid., p. 162. 37.ibid., p. 23. 38."Teilhard de Chardin and Protestant Theology", translated from the German by W.E. O'Hea, in The Teilhard Review, London, Summer, 1969, Vol, 4, No. 1, p. 11. 39.Ibid. 40.Ibid., p. 12. Page 66 ...
... sense or emotional desire the Truth that society has lost or buried in its whited sepulchres. It is then that the individualistic age of religion and thought and society is created; the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age Page 254 of Reason, the Age of Revolt, Progress, Freedom. A partial and external freedom, still betrayed by the conventional age that preceded it into the idea ...
... evolution and kept its inner continuity with its Vedic and Vedantic origins; but it changed entirely its mental contents and colour and its outward basis. It did not effectuate this change through any protestant revolt or revolution or with any idea of an iconoclastic reformation. A continuous development of its organic life took place, a natural transformation brought out latent motives or else gave to ...
... European culture on the minds of Indians even after freedom, perhaps because of its insistence on the externals of Indian Religion. Rammohan Roy may be called an imitative reformer, if Dayanand is a protestant reformist. He was among the first to oppose the blind orthodoxy of Hindu Religion and to found the Brahmo Samaj based on some ideas of the Unitarian Church and Upanishadic Vedanta. He worked, even ...
... your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,” graven on a tablet in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. White, Caucasian, Protestant, Nordic, long-skulled (brachycephalic), blonde, blue-eyed – America’s first eugenic propagandists believed that Germanics and Nordics comprised the supreme race, and that was what they wanted to ...
... Leonardo's lifetime was a period of great cultural turmoil, marked by such notable events as the introduction of the printing press (1455), the discovery of America (1492) and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation (1517). The Renaissance, which means a "rebirth " of ancient Greek and Roman culture, marked the decline of the Middle Ages and laid the foundations of modern times. This 1. Even ...
... up for the honour of their country and therefore consenting to the covering up of the truth; on the other side there were the liberals and ‘intellectuals’ (philosophers, writers and journalists), Protestants, Freemasons, leftists and internationalists, battling to bring the truth to light. The rift split the nation in an outburst of passion seldom seen before or after; it ran through marriages, families ...
... into a half-built convent, still swarming with masons and carpenters. There were many difficulties. Not only was he considered as a representative of a highly unpopular central government, he was a Protestant in a predominantly Catholic area. He had hardly settled when the children began to arrive. Soon there were eighty, some from good families, some destitute, a number of them quite violent. Pestalozzi ...
... Anglican archbishop James Usher calculated that the year of creation had been -4004. Printed in the margins of the King James Bible, Usher’s chronology became quasi gospel for British and American Protestants during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is still the belief of millions of people who have been taught the biblical story of creation in their early youth. Other religious scientists ...
... chapters that the gradual downslide of religion among the brightest minds is a Western phenomenon, countering the centuries of dogmatic tyranny by the Catholic Church, followed in this by the principal Protestant churches. This is the reason why the God under attack is without exception the Judeo-Christian God – most of the anti-theists have no idea of any other. A concordant reason of their aggressive stance ...
... of conversion were far from refined 17 , and will have their consequences in the centuries to come, for they resulted in the cruder sides of the Catholic religion and will ultimately lead to the Protestant Reformation. As Sri Aurobindo put it: “The European, ever since the Teutonic mind and temperament took possession of western Europe, has been fundamentally the practical, dynamic and kinetic man ...
... This confirms what I have long felt … Great things are taking shape.’ 11 After serving four years in the army, Richard had studied philosophy and theology, and been a pasteur [French Protestant minister] from 1898 to 1905, first in Montauban and afterwards in Lille, near the Belgian border. In Lille he had founded or joined a number of philanthropic organizations. His humanitarian interests ...
... attitude veils all joy to be and he shuns delight because he is there to speak of man's awe of his disobedience and also because joy is something profane and sacriligeous to the pious grimness of his Protestant spirit. Such a sentiment is absent in Sri Aurobindo. He takes delight as the cardinal principle of all existence and specially in a great poetical endeavour this comes as the foremost underlying ...
... by Paul for everyone at the end of time. I am afraid the tendency to engraft new visions on to old spiritual doctrines and discoveries has vitiated all attempts, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant, to focus the exalted vision that Teilhard de Chardin had of the Cosmic Christ. Again and again St. Paul and Gregory of Nyssa have been dragged in. Teilhard himself, eager not to be found too heterodox... of men and women. 1 But what in all likelihood happened is that the psychological atmosphere of the Odes fused with the "theologoumenon" which several modern Biblical scholars, both Catholic and Protestant, posit with their theory that some time in the 60s of the first century one or more Christian thinkers solved the Christological problem by affirming symbolically Jesus to have been the Son of God... this is where I would differ from their understanding of the divinisation of man. Of course, I would agree that this cosmic view of Christianity has been largely lost especially among the Protestant churches, but it is firmly established in the Greek Fathers, in St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. I myself was more or less brought up on it, and what Sri Aurobindo did for me was to confirm ...
... renew it, a means for those who are touched by the spiritual impulse to realise the Divine and liberate the spirit. This development has led farther to a division into two tendencies, catholic and protestant, one a tendency towards some conservation of the original plastic character of religion, its many-sidedness and appeal to the whole nature of the human being, the other disruptive of this catholicity ...
... to all intents and purposes, all-inclusive view of the universe and life, providing a world philosophy which in effect brings together the East and the West. 70 Otto Wolff, the German Protestant theologian, has also remarked that "it is not only Indians who see in him that last arch of a bridge of human thought and endeavour which leads from the Vedic beginnings to the present, and transcends ...
... ] Pierre Curie was born in Paris, in Rue Cuvier, on May 15,1859. He was the second son of a physician, Dr Eugene Curie, who was himself the son of a doctor. The family was of Alsatian origin, and Protestant. The Curies, once of the lower bourgeoisie, had through generations, become intellectuals and scientists. Pierre's father had to practice medicine to earn his living; but he was devoted to research ...
... felt in each of them. I am tempted to share with you some of her findings. For Mother never ceases to bring into view the rest of the country that lies hidden behind the surface. —"In the Protestant temples," she noted, "it stopped with the mind, there was nothing else — nothing, dry, dry. A mind, and behind, nothing." —"As for the Catholics," she observed, "it all depends a great deal upon ...
... and intellectualism. It is note- worthy, however, that it started from an endeavour to re- state the Vedanta, and it is curiously significant of the way in which even what might be well called a protestant movement follows the curve of the national tradition and temper, that the three stages of its growth, marked by the three churches or congregations into which it split, correspond to the three eternal ...
... so different from all those French people — I could not help myself from bringing this to Sujata's attention, because I had not "seen" New-Zealanders like that, I thought that they were heavy Protestants full of the Bible and sheep. But they were very simple and charming, really unpretentious and open-minded — honest and inconspicuous people. And, above all, without that French pretentiousness ...
... bit with finding information ... putting him in touch with people, etc., and trying to feel unity with the best in him .” One cannot think better, even Pope Paul VI would say as much to the Protestants or the Copts. One has broad views, you know. The trouble is that the whole View is muddy, as we have said. Where is the “best” in a rotten fruit? And the reasoning keeps unfolding (you can catch ...
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