Sublime

Alexei Khomyakov (1804–60), a poet, philosopher, political theorist and theologian, who was the first to expound the ‘Slavic Christian’ ideal of Sobornost – which might be translated as ‘concordance’, ‘integralism’ or ‘harmony’ – as both a spiritual and a political principle. Khomyakov was equally contemptuous of capitalism and socialism, which he

Érasme a, comme le lui reprochent avec amertume les théologiens catholiques, « pondu l'œuf que Luther a couvé ». Qu'il le veuille ou non, il est responsable dans une certaine mesure, en tant que pionnier, des actes de Luther : Ubi Erasmus innuit, illic Luther irruit. Il a entr‘ouvert prudemment la porte par laquelle l'autre a fait irruption ;

Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), the priest and humanist scholar who, as early as 1516, began preaching against clerical abuses, and whose sermons ‘from true, divine scripture’, starting in 1520, inaugurated a popular movement in Switzerland against such practices as priestly celibacy and the keeping of fasts.

FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE

Cambridge historian Henry Chadwick argued that Augustine “marks an epoch in the history of human moral consciousness.”47 For the first time the supreme goal of life was not self-control and rationality but love. Love was required to redirect the human person away from self-centeredness toward serving God and others. Augustine’s Confessions laid the

It is of course possible to assume that black religion and white religion are essentially the same, since white people introduced “Christianity” to black people. However, that assumption will deprive the theologian of vital insights into black religious thought forms, because it fails to recognize the significant connection between thought and

; mais à ce penseur aux larges vues, à cet « évolutionniste » le destin oppose un homme d'action, le révolutionnaire Luther que menait le démon des forces obscures de l'Allemagne. D'un seul coup de son robuste poing de paysan, le docteur Martin détruit l'union qu'Erasme, de sa blanche main, armée d'une plume, s'efforçait de réaliser avec un timide

Martin Luther