The Rise and Fall of the Lutheran Reformation

Dostoevsky: Modern ideas belong to this peasant rebellion of the north against the colder, more ambiguous and mistrustful spirit of the south that built its greatest monument in the Christian church. There was no doubt that the development advanced a large step with the Lutheran reformation. The locus of authority about religious matters and morality is distributed throughout the people and it's not in the church. That's what he means by God is dead. So we should talk a little bit about Dostoevky before we open it up.

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