Well, there were people by the millions who believed the substance of this article before 1400. I don’t think it is a Catholic versus Protestant thing at all.
That is because the article describes a certain fringe of Catholic thought. It is not at its center, but it does not go substantionally un-Catholic, except in the author’s delusionally Protestant-bracketed mind.
“Well, there were people by the millions who believed the substance of this article before 1400. I don’t think it is a Catholic versus Protestant thing at all.”
In light of what you have written, JL, you three might find “Beyond Justification: An Orthodox Perspective,” by Dr. Valerie Karras, an interesting study in what hundreds of millions of Orthodox Christians believe and have believed for about 1700 years. Karras is a respected if a bit left wing, by Orthodox standards, Greek Orthodox American theologian.
http://www.stpaulsirvine.org/html/Justification.htm
As she notes, like with so many other distinctly Western theological controversies, the East is mildly bemused and just a bit puzzled by what all the fuss is about.