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Fr. Heer, The First German Movement In Its European Setting (1270-1350) »
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    The first German movement, the very structure of its thought and its religious experience (though not necessarily the conscious intention of its leaders) was directed at the Carolingian-papal authoritarian Church and at the theology of power which it had built up. It was cool and mistrustful of the "unhallowed Empire". The ancient idea of God the King became God the Spirit. The rational-political ordo of the Curia was replaced by nature as guardian of the underground and all that belonged to it. Thomist-Aristotelian logic was overthrown by the dialectics of the Spirit of God and the heart of man. Logical distinctions and separations were blurred in the warmth of the spirit. The offices of pope, emperor, king, natural father and great congregation were denied any real efficacy in salvation. The figure of God the Father was pushed back into the depths of the unnameable Godhead, and Christ the Mediator was succeeded by God the Spirit. Christ's office of mediation had been dishonoured and desecrated by the clergy as had the office of father by pope and king. Read Complete

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