Sublime

The autonomous individual that was taking form had, in Taylor’s view, three main components: the “self-responsible independence” brought to the forefront by Locke, the “recognized particularity” epitomized by Montaigne, and the “individualism of personal commitment” that was a child of Protestantism.3

by affirming Augustine’s inwardness and the ability of each individual to read the Bible and stand before God’s justifying action themselves, Luther rejects that some people are spiritually dependent on what other people do. What the priest and pope do is not superior in kind to what farmers and housemaids do.