With the addition of all these restrictions, it would seemingly have been better to concentrate the discussion on the supernatural, mystical reality just mentioned. It was this reality, indeed, on which the Reformation split with Rome. From this point of view we can approach the controversy of the Reformation—an approach to be preferred to that of Brom who starts with the idea that the “sola-fide” is antithetic to love, to the reality of the sanctified life. Far from making the “by faith alone” exclusive,