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The Protestant Reformation is exclusively a modern project. When I use the word ancient, I truly mean old. Much older than the high Middle Ages.
by camelNotation 8y ago
The Protestant Reformation is exclusively a modern project. When I use the word ancient, I truly mean old. Much older than the high Middle Ages.
- JshWright 8y agoGiven the fact that the Protestant Reformation encompasses roughly a quarter of the lifespan of the Christian church, I'm not sure it's fair to call it "exclusively modern".
- camelNotation 8y agoTimespan is not as important as the shared perspective that defines modern religious thought, but even if it were, 25% is still far from a majority and, at least for most of that timeframe, Protestants were a small minority of Christians in the world (and they still are a minority).
- JshWright 8y agoI never claimed it was a "majority". My point is that the history of the Church is complicated, and Protestantism (representing roughly of a quarter of the catholic Church in terms of both time and people). Anything that encompasses 25-35% of a whole is significant enough to not be written off as "exclusively" anything.