Soli Deo gloria

Soli Deo gloria is an expression Latin E meaning with God only glory .

It is about a principle protesting indicating that there is only God which is crowned, divine or absolute. Thus, very undertaken human cannot claim to be absolute, intangible or universal, including the Théologie. Moreover, on the basis of the principle that God gave us freedom, the Protestants are generally favorable to a Social system which respects plurality and freedoms.

With God only glory is the currency best shared Protestant world. Nowhere in this world, a worship is returned to an human being, is died or alive, no worship neither with an object, nor with a symbol, by Protestants:

the Bread and the Vin, which represent the body and the blood of the Christ to the Sainte cene, are not in them same the object of any worship. The believer makes report of Christ and recognizes his presence, the bread and the wine being them same gifts of God, like anything of other.
the Bible also is not the object of any worship, even if the believer listens to the reading with great attention of it, considering that it is about one special moment in his life.

This consensus is perhaps related to the context of appearance of the confessions, often marked by an opposition to the capacity in place, capacity which often requires that glory be returned to him. The refusal to associate this capacity with a order or divine right obviously makes it possible to fight more easily against him, and, thus, this principle probably released the place with the right of the person.

It east can be due also to the capacity of evocation of the Bible; without same speech of faith, each one will recognize that many the biblical texts have a very strong capacity of evocation, able to carry the believer, without it needing a temporal support. From a laic point of view, the biblical texts have an artistic dimension suitable to light and carry any person in her life, avoiding to him, if one can say, referring to a constraining capacity.

This glory to be returned to God can take very diverse forms, since the howls of joy until the interior quiet recognition. This diversity forever posed problems, at least institutionnellement.

More difficult for the believer is the respect of glory with God within the framework of the violence of the feelings than one can test for a loved being. Indeed, the Protestant is taken overhanging: if glory must with God, it is because of love of god; if thus a person is loved, the tendency is naturally to adore it, by continuity, to some extent. The believer is then surprised to return glory to a person who is not God. He can result a suffering and a very strong culpability from it.

The attitude of the Protestant churches on this subject is very diverse, and can be the subject of mutual incomprehension, particularly when considerations of a sexual nature are concerned.

Certain Protestant confessions are very liberal, alleging that God always developed the love between human throughout the Bible. Others require that these relations be circumscribed with the bonds of the Mariage, or at least family (subsidiary love, etc). Others still limit the love affairs to bare essential procréatif, alleging that the love of which it is question in the Law of God is only of a sentimental nature, and which it must be for all the human ones and not a person in particular; it should be only the reflection of the love of god, think, virtuous love, by assumption.

In a way enough surprising, the Protestants are ultimately relatively open to the love between human beings, including in its carnal dimensions, and including when it could be in competition with With God only glory . Other Christian confessions see the things differently. The catholics, for example, do not hesitate to return a worship and glory to saints, relics, Marie (the mother of Jesus), etc On the other hand they can go further in exclusiveness to God, by wishes of abstinence, and even by a quasi-carnal worship towards God, form completely foreign in the Protestant medium.

SDG was initials used inter alia by Jean-Sebastien Bach to sign his works.

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