post-Tridentine Catholicism.” (p. 15)

     Examining later, how medieval piety is a progressive 
alienation of the people from the liturgy, in the interest of 
grand visual effects, Bouyer (p. 249) feels great sympathy with 
the Protestant reformers who missed the real opportunity for 
inclusive reform in favor of exclusive segmentation:

          This is true not only because the Reformers reacted 
     against the extreme transformations of traditional piety 
     which had been progressively achieved by these novelties, 
     but also for the reason that had Protestantism been such 
     a reaction through and through, in fact as well as in 
     precept, it could have become a true reformation instead. 
     But Protestantism is much more truly the product of 
     medieval piety because it is the fruit of what lay in that