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Roger Vest
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Although Protestants could be as intolerant of dissent as their Catholic counterparts, the Reformation set the template for nearly every successful campaign for political and religious liberty in the West. The elevation of individual conscience galvanized the 17th-century revolution in natural rights, for example, embodied in the writings of
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ever claim to have been divinely inspired.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
This was the dynamic that made the regulative principle so important. Reformed Christians said in effect, “We don’t want to ask our church members to do anything that would violate their consciences.” Maybe bowing here or a kiss there could be justified by some in their hearts, but what about those who found it idolatrous?
Authors • The Freedom of the Regulative Principle
In particular, the Reformers were critical of worship practices that had been effectively “naturalized”—forms of worship that construed liturgical practices as operations of merely human effort.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The first question and answer in the Heidelberg Catechism reads:
Alan Noble • You Are Not Your Own
Christian Sawyer
@ousi
Reformed type, were of Calvinistic origin.