Grace in The Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation reacted against the concepts of grace and merit as they were understood in late medieval Catholic theology.
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“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There was a young lady called Alice
Who peed in a Catholic chalice.
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“Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)