[In the study of history as in the study of philosophy or science we find many parallel developments, many institutions that have grown up side by side
influencing each other and determining to a greater or less extent the height oy- the depth to which each
may reach. But in most of these institutions we can
see that one has had a decidedly more profound influence
than the other. In the study of nationalism
and Protestantism we find it to be,however, a pretty
difficult task to determine which has had the greater
influence on the other. In point of time they are
almost contemporaneous. Nationalism may be said to
antidate protestantism by a brief period, but a close
study will reveal the fact that the leaven that finally
broke out in the protestant Reformation had
been quietly working deep down in society for many
generations before Martin Luther nailed his ninety five
theses to the door of the Wittenburg chapel
October 31, 1517.
Even though we may not be able to say which had
the greater influence on the other,nationalism or
protestantism, we may, I believe, contend that protestantism
could never have developed without
nationalism nor could nationalism ever have reached
the high place it holds in world history and world
politics today without protestantism.]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/45402 |
| Date | January 1918 |
| Creators | Ruhlen, Charles Lester |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | No known copyright restrictions, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
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