Protestantism Thinkers Definitions

Protestantism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠chronic iconoclasm — a fortress robbed of its bastions, a house whose walls have been plucked away, open to every wind.

Protestantism (n.) threw ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠out the ritual every religion needs and kept only sola fide, so the content of the symbol keeps crumbling.

Protestantism (n.) pulled ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠down the walls of dogma and left man to face his inner experience without protection.

Protestantism (n.) tore ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠down the walls between God and man, and the liberated energy made Europe the mother of dragons that devoured the earth.

Protestantism (n.) left ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the individual alone with his God — hence four hundred denominations, a symptom of individualism run riot.

Protestantism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a man's religion with no metaphysical representation of woman — like Mithraism, to its detriment.

Protestantism (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠split into some four hundred denominations — proof of its bankruptcy and of a religious vitality that will not be smothered.

Protestantism (n.) likes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to pretend that Christian ideas dropped straight out of heaven, while the Catholic Church calmly admits Osiris and Isis as prefigurations.

Protestantism (n.) dropped ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Mother of God and let the spiritual dogmatic image detach from earthly man and sink into the unconscious; alchemy flourished then because for a Protestant it was the only way of still being Catholic.

Protestantism (n.) splitting ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into four hundred denominations is a sign of life, like the swollen portfolio of amendments to the Code Napoléon — "the Code is not dead, Sire, it lives."

Protestantism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in itself no church at all, Jung told the Anglican clergy, though he would call the Church of England a real church.