Calvinism a life-system - pagina 210

CALVINISM AND ART.

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measures, by which, as he writes, to restore

instituted

man

fooHsh

this

to

The

sounder sense and reason.

blind prejudice against Sculpture, on the

ground of the

Second Commandment,

unworthy of

He

refutation.

move

to

declares

the excellent favors of

and enjoyment,

And

even when art

God

for

our recreation

mind the highest condescends to become the

occupies

it

of mere

instrument

in

his

that this sort of pleasure should not

them.

In view

esteemed

he

more

of

all

this

we may

especially, as a gift of the

grasped the profound

fully

upon the

life

finally, that

viz.,

by

this

man

this sinful

implied

this brief

it

the noble

and corrupted world.

nothing beyond the personal

have no conclusive value ally developped,

we

a higher reality than was

interpretation of Calvin, his testimony

when we observe

it

and drink

yea even of common

a mere imitation of nature, he attributed to

if

by

that life,

so far from considering art as

vocation of disclosing to

Now

art

of the emotions; that he appreciated the

at the fountain of higher pleasures,

offered to us

that

worked by

might glorify God, and ennoble human

and

Calvin of God,

gift

Holy Ghost;

effects

end for which art has been given,

sport;

a

be denied

that

say,

in all its ramifications, as

art,

he

entertainment to the masses,

asserts

or,

power

exults in Music as a marvellous

hearts and to ennoble tendencies and morals.

Among rank.

Calvin

would of course

for Calvinism in general.

But

that Calvin himself was not artistic-

and that therefore he must have derived

system of Aesthetics from

his principles,

he

may

be credited with having expounded the Calvinistic consideration of art as such.

To go

direct to the heart of the quest-

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