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Revelation is always reformation as well, the only true and possible reformation. All human attempts to find the origins, the true teaching, beneath the rubble of conflicting forms of Christianity and theological systems-- for instance through "demythologizing"-- always turn out to be defective, inadequate and doomed to failure. For every reformer is missing two vital things, a binding standard and a generally acknowledged authority. That is why the Reformation leaders did not achieve any unity either and immediately split into Lutherans and Zwinglians, then Lutherans and Calvinists, feuding violently with each other-- to say nothing of the many secondary Reformation offshoots and sects. The Reformation has given Christianity, which was never a solid unity, a "theological pluralism" which is shown today in the fact that there is bitter conflict on central questions of faith (like divinity of Christ and the Resurrection). Werner Harenberg describes the situation thus:
(88:1)
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