the rejection of self-love by Protestants
belongs to their depreciation of secondary causes.
but in this way they stop up the wellspring of joy
and all human activity.
I don't understand this quote. What are secondary causes? In what ways to Protestant's depreciate them? And how does this lead to a rejection of self-love and loss of joy?
I grabbed this quote out of a book of aphorisms by von balthasar
it's an interesting critique coming (I would guess) out of his theological engagement with barth
my read ( open to correction ) is that protestants rejected angels and saints and things like intercessory prayer and eventually the sacraments the secondary levels of causality in the economy of salvation
why that is linked to a rejection of self love is something I find interesting
the quote leapt out at me and I didn't think about it much but now I am thinking about it
perhaps a catholic judgment on this might sound something like... our form of worship is a deliberate act of recognizing the love god has for each soul and thus the deliberate act of worship is in fact a form of self love
to reduce things to sola scriptura sola fides sola gratia etc is to put aside the human involvement in redemption
there's nothing we can do to merit grace...
somehow I think this is a piercing observation into the distinction and divide in Christian religious consciousness
maybe things are better than they were in the 1600s
it's one of those things which we have to determine is true or not
anyway I like the sound of the quote and I think it's pointing to something real
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I don't understand this quote.
What are secondary causes?
In what ways to Protestant's depreciate them?
And how does this lead to a rejection of self-love and loss of joy?
I grabbed this quote out of a book of aphorisms by von balthasar
it's an interesting critique
coming (I would guess) out of his
theological engagement with barth
my read ( open to correction )
is that protestants rejected angels and saints
and things like intercessory prayer
and eventually the sacraments
the secondary levels of causality
in the economy of salvation
why that is linked to a rejection of self love
is something I find interesting
the quote leapt out at me and I didn't think about it much
but now I am thinking about it
perhaps a catholic judgment on this might sound something like...
our form of worship is a deliberate act of recognizing
the love god has for each soul and thus the deliberate act of worship is
in fact a form of self love
to reduce things to sola scriptura sola fides sola gratia
etc
is to put aside the human involvement in redemption
there's nothing we can do to merit grace...
somehow I think this is a piercing observation
into the distinction and divide in Christian religious consciousness
maybe things are better than they were in the 1600s
it's one of those things which we have to determine is true or not
anyway
I like the sound of the quote
and I think it's pointing to something real
thanks for chiming in
...
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