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Calvinist justification by faith relocates proof of faith away from church-mediated works and into the direct relation between the individual and God.
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Church Authority
Calvin's double predestination denies Church authority by making salvation a divine decision already settled before Church mediation can matter.
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Jiang argues that Galileo's real danger was not disagreement with Church science but claiming authority to interpret Scripture above the Church.
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Calvin's double predestination denies Church authority by making salvation a divine decision already settled before Church mediation can matter.
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Rome's original primacy came from being the capital of the Roman Empire, but the move of the capital to Constantinople allowed Constantinople to challenge that primacy by imposing orthodoxy.
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Jiang says Augustine solves the crisis by making the Church a representative of God outside ordinary history, while mortal politics remains a battle for power.
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"will recognize is, they don't actually have the population resources to maintain their empire, so they will retreat and leave this empire to the..."
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"And God knows if you are faithful, and you yourself know if you're faithful. So if you spend money, if you build stuff, that..."
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"model, he was coming into conflict with a lot of academics that were extremely well established who made their living off the heliocentric model,..."
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"That's what the Bible says. Also, if you look at Genesis, it's clear that God created the Earth first, and then he created the..."
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"So, this is the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther, Martin Luther starts this doctrinal debate, and John Calvin also contributes to it..."
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"But, it was understood the primary church was Rome because Rome was the center, the capital, of the Roman Empire. And because of this,..."
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"And they believe that by converting to Christianity, two things happen. The first thing happened was the old gods, Jupiter and the others, became..."
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"What does that mean? It means that history is really about mortals battling for power. But the Catholic Church, it is a representative of..."
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"...friends, powerful backers, and so they bailed him out from the church authorities."
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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