The Religion of the Prayer Book (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Religion of the Prayer Book

Of late years the attempt has been made to interpret the word Protestant as meaning liberal and progressive. It is said that the name Protes tant has survived as embodying for many the conception of liberty, the right Of private judg ment, Of toleration Of every progressive idea in religion, as opposed to the Roman Catholic prin ciples of authority and tradition. Whether this is a true description Of modern Protestantism or not, it certainly is not a true description Of the Protestantism Of the Reformation period. That was quite as intolerant as Romanism, and in Germany adopted the principle of State suprem acy by which the religion Of the subject followed the religion Of the sovereign on the sovereign's adoption Of any religion, that became at once the religion Of the subject; SO that the protest of the Reformation was, as has been said, a protest. Not for the subjects' freedom to choose, but for the sovereign's to prescribe.

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