Calvinism - pagina 36

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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and makincr

isincT

a rule for all believers.

it

Western Europe. mish theory,

doned the

the

rest

difference:

this

room

in the

distinction

one for the the

with

many

so

that

it

placed the

of the Church, and aban-

between the two moral standards,

and the other

clergy

Protestants in

Anabaptism adopted the Ro-

In fact

God

king-dom of

among

rise

its

was not

this anabaptistic principle, that

from Calvinism, but from

Akosmism had

It

For

for the laity.

Anabaptist's standpoint was:

i.

that the

unbaptized world was under the curse, for which reason

he withdrew from circle of

it

all civil

— with

kingdom of God life

under

and

institutions;

civil

baptized believers

with him the take

all

Rome

— was

in

2.

that the

the Church, but

duty bound to

guardianship and to remodel

its

and so John of Leyden violently established

;

his

shameless power at Munster as King of the Nezv Zion,

and

his devotees

ran naked through the streets of Am-

Hence,

on the same grounds on which Cal-

sterdam.

vinism rejected Rome's theory concerning the world,

it

rejected

the theory of the Anabaptist, and proclaimed

that the

Church must withdraw again within

domain,

and that

potencies of God's

Thus

is

it

shown

starting-point of tions of all to

its

human

man and

to

in

world we should

the

common

is

realize the

grace.

own

for the three

existence:

the ivorld.

viz.,

fundamental

man

rela-

our relation to God,

For our

pendently of priest or church.

which

spiritual

that Calvinism has a sharply-defined

an immediate fellowship of

to mail',

its

relation to

God:

with the Eternal, inde-

For the

relation of

man

the recognition in each person of human worth, his

by virtue of

his creation after the

Divine

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