Theological Foundation
Berulle's contribution was the absolute focus on Jesus, the incarnate Word of God, both in his sublime divinity and in his complete debasement as God become man. Centered on this person who abased himself willingly to enter the human estate, the devotional end for the faithful was to abandon all ego and vanity so that the person of Christ might become incarnate in the believer. The effect on the Church throughout the era was a heavy devaluing of the this-worldly in favor of the exultation of the heavenly.
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