Calvinism - pagina 219

CALVINISM AND ART.

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and Raphael stored the Romish Cathedrals with of art,

ures

and

art,

this

The

patronage.

more patent

old

of

tie

itself

continued to unite church

liberation

real

From

energies.

a permanent

established

of art required

principle, the

to be forced back to her spiritual realm.

make her appearance

the church,

much

church was Art, having

hitherto confined herself to the holy spheres, to

treas-

unique and inimitable, never to be

Thus the

surpassed.

and

quite

5

had now

And

in the social world.

in

had to put aside her symboHcal

Religion

robes, in order that, after having ascended to the higher spiritual level, her hfe-giving breath

whole world. "It

is

Just as

might animate the

Von Hartmann

truly observes:

pure spiritual Religion which with one hand de-

prives the

artist

of his

specifically

religious

art,

but

which, with the other, offers him, in exchange, a whole

Now Luther certainly

world, to be religiously animated."

desired such a pure, spiritual Religion, but Calvinism was

the

first

to grasp

First under the stirring impulses of

it

Calvinism, our fathers broke with the splendor ecclesiae^ i. e.,

with her outward

glitter,

and so also with her vast

by which art was financially held in bondage. And although Humanism rebelled against this opprespossessions,

sive

to

and unnatural

a radical change

effect

Only think that

time

on the

state of things,

of Erasmus.

if left

for

to

Triumph

was not reserved

strife

it

Religious

for the

liberty

could never hope its

own

resources.

in the struggle

man who by mere

of

carried

criticism,

but only for him, who, standing on an higher stage of religious development,

as such.

And,

overcame the symbolical

therefore,

we may boldly

religion

assert that

it

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