From: henry sholar <hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu> Subject: Re: Merit and paradise for protestants Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:06:10 -0400 I think Vibeke Annette Sol|y has answered the question wonderfully thoroughly. The key is indeed the development of Prot thought from Augustine. There is an interesting philosophical lineage here too: Plato to Augustine as Aristotle to Aquinas. I think one can still see the vestiges of these influences in the variant Xian notions of the self (along foucauldian lines) in the denominations. kindest regards, henry On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:28:27 -0300 Anaspinoza <anaspinoza-AT-sinectis.com.ar> wrote: > Henry, thank you very much for your answer. I find a contradiction in the > rejection that Luther makes of the concept of merit and the conservation of > paradise-heaven by protestantism. Paradise is the place were people with > enough merits go (at least that is the position of catholicism). If Luther > rejects merit, he should then reject paradise. > It is contradictory lo reject merit and to accept paradise. How can this be > explained? > > Ana Spinoza > ---------------------- hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu
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