Calvinism - pagina 253

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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phalanx of theologians from Schleiermacher to Pflelderer

name

continued to pay high honours to the but

equally undeniable that this remained possible

is

it

of Christ,

only by subjecting Christ and the Christian confession

A

metamorphoses.

bolder

ever

to

painful

one which becomes absolutely evident,

now

creed

the

Even confining ourselves been that

Common

the

which

to the Apostles' creed,

substantially

has

we

find

as the '•^Creator of heaven

and

years

standard of

God

the belief in

you compare

died.

two a thousand

almost

for

all

Christians,

has been abolished; for creation has been sup-

earth"

by

planted belief

God

in

Abolished

evolution.

the

Son,

as

born

also

many, the

with

further,

ascension

and

return

been the

has

Mary,

of the Virgin

through conception from the Holy Ghost.

Abolished

belief in His resurrection

Abolished

to judgment.

even the belief of the church

name

of the Christian

but in

essence principle,

its

it

and

finally

in the resurrection of the

dead, or at least in the resurrection of the body.

in

but

these circles with the con-

current in

which our Martyrs

fession for

if

fact,

religion

is

still

The

being retained,

has become a quite different religion

even of a diametrically opposite cha-

racter.

And when

against

us,

of

Church involves a complete metamorphosis of

the

incessantly

the

Jesus

of

veil

off the

is

modern

brought

interpretation has

true character of the historical

we can but answer, that not this modern conception of

Nazareth,

historically,

charge

that in point of fact the traditional Christ

the genuine Jesus, whilst the lifted

the

after

all,

Jesus of

Nazareth but the Church's confession of the God-Man

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