It’s a view of the Early Church that was colored by Germanic culture at the end of the Middle Ages. Luther was heavily Renaissance humanism and late medieval pagan nominalism.
His mutant version of Christianity was far removed from the Semitic Christianity that the apostles and their immediate successors knew.
Protestants hit at Catholics for borrowing the language of the Greek philosophers, but a close look at St. Paul shows he had a strong familiarity with their language. In fact, his works resemble those of Philo of Alexandria whose blend of Platonism and Judaism affected the Hellenistic Jewish communities around the Mediterranean.
The chief sin of Protestantism is that it rejects Christianity’s Jewish roots completely in favor of later concepts.
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