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To: livius
The only thing I do wonder about is the "Sola Scriptura" current. That strikes me as something that might reflect a direct influence of Islam and its approach to its texts.

Doubtful, since Islam doesn't require Muslims to understand the Koran & translation into any language from the original Arab is frowned upon. The idea is to recite the book in Arab & Allah will do the rest.

Then there are the side books about the life of Mo, so the faithful can model their lives after him. When Muslims want to know how it all applies to something, they get a ruling about it (fatwa) from a Muslim scholar.

30 posted on 02/17/2007 2:37:52 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly

Well, leaving aside the jokes about Protestants who thought that Jesus spoke English...

I don't think that Protestants shared Muslim ideas about the book, but they, like Muslims, seemed to think that their scriptures had dropped down from Heaven and were revealed in themselves and to Protestants in particular. The Church, of course, developed the canon and threw out many competing scriptures that were not in accordance with doctrine as it had developed in the first centuries, but this is totally ignored by Protestants, or perhaps not even known by them.

But one of the things that is probably important in the development of Protestantism, as I mentioned above, is the development of printing. Muslims had to keep their text in its original language because of the "information science" limitations of their time.

However, once you had a system that could produce a standard, easily distributed and easily translatable text, you would then approach that text in a different way, and the way Protestants approached it was to enshrine it, as though it existed in isolation from the Church and the centuries of experience of the faithful and the Faith.


76 posted on 02/17/2007 7:36:54 PM PST by livius
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To: GoLightly
Islam doesn't require Muslims to understand the Koran & translation into any language from the original Arab is frowned upon.

That's interesting and certainly counter to Protestant habit and instruction.

When Muslims want to know how it all applies to something, they get a ruling about it (fatwa) from a Muslim scholar.

That sounds more like the RC hierarchy than anything found in Protestant churches.

123 posted on 02/18/2007 10:54:48 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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