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>Christina Aus der Au, Swiss pastor and president of an ecumenical church convention: “Reformation means courageously seeking what is new and turning away from old, familiar customs.” Right, that’s what the Reformation was all about: average laypeople and archbishops gave their bodies to be burned and the Western church was divided, because people became tired of the same old thing and were looking for nontraditional beliefs and ways of living—just like us!
>We’re all enthusiasts. Müntzer and other Radicals claimed (and still claim today) that the Spirit speaks directly to them, above and even sometimes against what he has revealed in Scripture. The secret, private, and inborn “word” was contrasted with the “outer word that merely beats the air.”3 The Reformers pressed: Is this not what the pope does? While enthusiasm works from the inside out (inner experiences, reason, and free will expressed outwardly), God works from the outside in (the word and the sacraments). “Therefore we ought and must constantly maintain this point,” Luther thundered, “that God does not wish to deal with us otherwise than through the spoken Word and the Sacraments. It is the devil himself whatsoever is extolled as Spirit without the Word and the Sacraments” (SA III. 8.10–11).
>The same contrast between inner and outer dominates liberal Protestantism.5 It is Jesus in my heart—not the external, salvific Jesus of history who is known through Scripture…appears in the manifesto that launched Pentecostalism: “We are . . . seeking to replace the dead forms and creeds. . . with living, practical Christianity.”
>experiential aspect of religion; institution is the outer, established form of religion.” He adds, “Direct experience is always more trustworthy, if for no other reason than because of its ‘inwardness’ and ‘withinness’—two qualities that have come to be much appreciated in a highly expressive, narcissistic culture.” The irony is not to be missed: modern secularization is the product less of atheism than of a fanatical “enthusiasm” that is perpetually being stripped of its explicitly religious reference
>now rendered the visible church and its ministry obsolete.
>Do We Need the Church? Fr. Richard P. McBrien writes, “The church is no longer to be conceived as the center of God’s plan…
>a liberal theologian such as Paul Tillich recognized that the Enlightenment was to some extent the triumph of Radical enthusiasm: “The inner reason of the Enlightenment is really the inner light…
>[the] deeply religious or spiritual in their basic motive—even when the proletariat replaces God. Raze this world to its foundations and build a new civilization from scratch. History is moving toward an endpoint, either of apocalyptic disaster or utopia, and we are going to be agents of this providential destiny. As Karl Löwith explains, the modern doctrine of progress is Christian eschatology secularized.
>[the] more liberal northern counterparts, [while] Anglicans in Africa often scratch their heads, wondering what possible spiritual connection they have with the Episcopal Church in the United States. And yet American “enthusiasm” continues to spread like wildfire
>we [are] celebrating the Radical enthusiasm that our culture mistakes as the Reformation: the autonomous self, individualism, free will, and inner experience and reason
>In many parts of the world, the effects of that recovery are still being powerfully felt…modern culture generally, the magisterial Reformation [gained solid]… ground to the enthusiasts of the Left and the Right. Now that we have tried Radical Protestantism for several centuries, [it's] the best way of celebrating
https://www.whitehorseinn.org/article/protestantism-is-over-and-the-radicals-won/