Scholastic Order vs Symbolic Order. Protestant Reform as Expression of a Language Crisis
Scholastic Order vs Symbolic Order. Protestant Reform as Expression of a Language Crisis

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to investigate matters related to the scholastic order beforeReform, the original symbolic order established by God in creation and expressedby the Church in its cult, and what really Luther has realized through his Reformfrom the symbolic order perspective. The symbolic order we are dealing with in thisstudy is an extrapolation of the same syntagma from the philosophy of religion andart domain into, specifi cally, the Christian Religion and Church life. The Reform hasappeared due to misunderstandings in 16th century Christianity because of differentlanguages and orders of that age. On the one hand, there is the original mystagogicaland symbolic order developed in the fi rst millennium, especially in Byzantium,ex isting also in Catholicism. On the other hand, there is the scholastic orderdeveloped artifi cially by catholic theologians, and fi nally simplifi ed by the Reform.

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