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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

1

modern Pantheism. Without this unity of starting point and Hfe-system we must lose the power to maintain our independent position, and our strength

for resistance

must ebb away.

The supreme

interest here at stake, however, forbids

our accepting without more positive proof the fact that Calvinism really provides us with such an unity of life-

we demand proofs

and

system

Calvinism

of the assertion that

not a partial nor was a merely temporary

is

phenomenon,

but

such an all-embracing system of

is

principles, as, rooted in the past,

us in the present and to

Hence we must

future.

is

able to strengthen

us with confidence for the

fill

ask what are the required

first

conditions for such general systems of

Islamism,

these conditions.

fulfils

These conditions demand special

in the first place, that

our relation

our relation to

Hence the shall

find

of our

If

our

life,

consciousness, lies

vines

claim

to

it

in

comprehended but in

demands

God.

the

must

to

life;

viz.,

man, and

3.

root

its

that such a

life

system

a special interpretation

in

is

not accidental, but

to put

is

start

which our in

:

This

such an action

imperative.

human

our relation

starting-point

relation

entire

2.

all

zvorld.

tJie

first

its

God,

to

from

insight be obtained into

a peculiar

principle

the three fundamental relations of I.

Paganism,

as

Romanism and Modernism, and then show

that Calvinism really

a

life,

its

stamp upon

from that point

life

unity,

is

still

— not

in

our

undivided and

in the

spreading

from which the vines spring.

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