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\u2026between these two pieces:<\/p>\n

1) \u201cThe defining moment of the Protestant Reformation was its protest against the absolutizing tendencies of the medieval church as exhibited in its ecclesiastical structure and its doctrine of the sacraments. As an intramundane historical institution, the church along with all other intramundane entities and organizations testifies to its finitude and frailties, and any claim for ultimacy on its part in matters of faith and morals is but another species of idolatry. This defining moment of Protestantism, its iconoclastic principle of protest, was however attenuated, if not straightway abandoned, in the course of the development of the various forms of Protestant orthodoxy. In this development, Protestantism found itself unable to use the Protestant principle against itself as it gravitated toward multiple forms of its own idolatry \u2014 absolutizing church doctrines, creeds, scriptures, founders of sects, or ritual practices.\u201d
Calvin Schrag, God as Otherwise than Being: Toward a Semantics of the Gift<\/span>, 92.<\/p>\n

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