Calvinism a life-system - pagina 165

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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by the nature He gave him, and for the extra-common by granting him the supranatural gift of original righteousness. In this wise Adam was doubly furnished for the natural as well as the celestial

he

earthly hfe remained almost unimpaired.

his

human

true,

Adam's

in its integrity.

remained

his possession after the

them why

it

order

natural

that

of

life,

perceive that this

dogma

the

is

of the

round about

which is

and on

us,

founded the entire only are faulty

this

Roman

remarkable anthropology

This

leads.

it

the world

is

upon the Caro the

vale,

ideal,

clergy,

lacks

to

that time

one enters

but after the Carnival, in order to

follows,

severing

higher than the

At

fully enjoyed, before

for

a

short

laity,

the

earthly

tie

time,

For

elevation into the higher sphere of life.

the

it

the false dualism, to which a

is

once more

is

Two things

and on the other

sin,

previous Lecture pointed, in the carnival.

save

of things

state

real

by the undervaluation of human nature

errs

which

merely human.

catholic religion.

the deep Scriptural conception of it

often excels in the

system, on the one hand

in this

it

endowments

This explains to

fall.

in fact

is

It is

a system which tries to reconcile

with the

fall

natural

man

fallen

fall

but as a whole

nature was weakened,

remained

You

the

His natural equipment

not the former.

lost the latter,

for

By

life.

spiritual

this

reason

in celibacy,

rank

and again, the monk, who turns

away from earthly possessions also and sacrifices his own will stands, ethically considered, on a higher level ,

than the clergy. reached by the himself from

And

stylite,

finally the highest perfection is

who, mounting

everything

earthly,

or

his pillar, severs

by

the yet II

more

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