I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose
As an (orthodox) Lutheran, I would like to make a couple of points:
ReplyDelete--Lutherans never chose to leave the Church Catholic. We were kicked out. We still consider ourselves "catholic", just not Roman Catholic.
--Lutherans are the only Protestants who believe the 2,000 year old core doctrines of the Faith: God saves sinners (monergistically) in Holy Baptism, and Christ is truly bodily present in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to enrich our salvation and for the forgiveness of sins.
--The early stages of the Reformation, which we refer to as the "Lutheran Reformation" had NOTHING to do with Salvation. It had everything to do with "Satisfaction". For an explanation, click here:
http://www.lutherwasnotbornagain.com/2013/10/the-lutheran-reformation-was-about.html
Ok, Gary, but what does this have to do with the post?
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