OK, this hits on another of my pet-peeves: First of all that most of whole Protestantism was taken over by Calvinism (especially in the English-speaking countries, but given the role of US in the worldwide Protestantism, it is everywhere), so that Luther (who is in my opinion much more interesting and radically new than Calvin ever was) is now just a step-stone towards the Great Revelation of Jean Calvin, but mostly because the Calvinism led to modernism and eradication of anything arrational from our world. Protestants are rational, purposeful, and scientific, so we lost all art (which great composer of the classical music was Protestant and was not named J. S. Bach, who was a Lutheran working for Catholic customers?), we lost all sense of wonder (which as listeners of this podcast know from Aristotle is the first incentive to philosophy), and we lost most of the mysticism (preserved only by Pietism, which was again a Lutheran phenomenon).
Calvinism robbed us of mysticism
OK, this hits on another of my pet-peeves: First of all that most of whole Protestantism was taken over by Calvinism (especially in the English-speaking countries, but given the role of US in the worldwide Protestantism, it is everywhere), so that Luther (who is in my opinion much more interesting and radically new than Calvin ever was) is now just a step-stone towards the Great Revelation of Jean Calvin, but mostly because the Calvinism led to modernism and eradication of anything arrational from our world. Protestants are rational, purposeful, and scientific, so we lost all art (which great composer of the classical music was Protestant and was not named J. S. Bach, who was a Lutheran working for Catholic customers?), we lost all sense of wonder (which as listeners of this podcast know from Aristotle is the first incentive to philosophy), and we lost most of the mysticism (preserved only by Pietism, which was again a Lutheran phenomenon).