Protestant faith-alone doctrine privatized access to God away from institutions

Evidence

For Hegel, the Reformation’s insistence on ‘faith alone’ is linked to the spread of modern subjectivity. In faith, man has immediate access to God. There is no need for Him to reveal himself through any sort of finite reality, whether that be an institution (the people, the family, the church), or a human act or artefact. Only faith, in the Lutheran view, prevents God from being made finite through intellection or intuition: Religion [Protestantism] builds its temples and altars in the heart of the individual. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 800

Categorization

• XREF: This privatization of religious mediation through subjectivity is the theological root of the modern turn inward that Malabou’s reader, studying plasticity, will meet again in accounts of brain self-determination and temporal self-relation. — connects to: Ancestry-based purity laws displaced religious conversion as a path to inclusion; Religious establishment was legally redefined as private individual speech — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 839; Protestantism’s rejection of finite mediation makes the infinite abstract and unreachable — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 802

Broader Connections

• Protestantism’s rejection of finite mediation makes the infinite abstract and unreachable #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 802
• Religious establishment was legally redefined as private individual speech #corroborates (0.80) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 839
• Ancestry-based purity laws displaced religious conversion as a path to inclusion #complicates (0.75)