Views During The Time of the Reformation (15): Views on the Church: The Formal Principle

We will now continue with our quotation from Philip Schaff as he writes on "The New Mysticism," Vol. VI, pages 236-242. We will now continue with our quotation from Philip Schaff as he writes on "The New Mysticism," Vol. VI, pages 236-242. "German mysticism had a distinct individuality of its own. On occasion, its leaders quoted Augustine's Constitutions and other works, Dionysius the Areopagite, Bernard and Thomas Aquinas, but they did not have the habit of referring back to human...