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    The Protestant Reformation failed to resolve the contradi... — Carmelics
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    The Protestant Reformation failed to resolve the contradiction between faith and reason, despite resolving the contradiction between spirit and flesh.

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    • 1.The Protestant Reformation resolved the medieval Catholic contradiction between spirit and flesh by rejecting clerical celibacy, affirming the vocation of the laity, and separating temporal and spiritual authority.
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    • 2.The contradiction between faith and reason (theology and philosophy) persisted after the Protestant Reformation.
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    • 1.Luther's doctrine of sola scriptura subjected theological claims to rational textual scrutiny, dissolving the Catholic faith/reason hierarchy.
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    • 2.Melanchthon's integration of humanist dialectic into Lutheran theology institutionalized rational method within Protestant faith itself.
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    • 3.The Protestant university tradition, exemplified by Wittenberg, treated philosophy as a necessary propaedeutic to theology, not its adversary.
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    • 1.Calvin's doctrine of common grace held that human reason, though fallen, reliably grasps natural and moral truth, constituting a partial reconciliation of faith and reason.
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    • 2.If Protestant theology affirmed reason's autonomous domain in natural knowledge, the faith/reason contradiction was structurally resolved even if tensions persisted in practice.
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    Although the Protestant Reformation, in its rejection of clerical celibacy, its affirmation of the vocation of the laity, and its separation of temporal and spiritual authority, resolved the contradiction between the spirit and the flesh that was characteristic of medieval Catholicism, Feuerbach argues, it failed to resolve the contradiction between faith and reason, or theology and philosophy. Bayle’s historical significance for Feuerbach consists in his uncompromising exposure of this contradi
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