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Whereas the Renaissance strengthened the anthropocentric features in the Christian synthesis, the Reformation operated in the opposite direction; in its call for another, safer, path to salvation than the Roman Church could offer, it stressed the theocentric roots of the Christian message. In that sense the Reformation too can be seen as a renaissance.
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© 1993 Jaroslav Krejčí
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Krejčí, J. (1993). What Happened to the Open End? Avenues for Further Mutations. In: The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22523-1_11
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