Calvinism - pagina 260

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CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

256

He who

spiritually higher standpoint.

not go back-

will

wards, but reaches after higher things, must therefore either

stand by the world-view once developed by Protestantism,

on the

or,

out

point

what the to

hand,

other a

higher

still

latter

for

too

this

conceivable,

is

Now

standpoint.

is

modern philosophy does indeed presume

man

acknowledging Luther as a great

do,

this

for his

but hailing in Kant and Darwin the apostles of

time,

much richer gospel. But this need not detain us. For our own age, however great in invention, in the display a

of powers of

mind and energy, has not advanced

wise given us a higher view of

greater

and

religious

ethical

systematised

i.

truly

e.

Reformation

and

ing hypotheses;

no

and

life,

and has yielded

us

nor greater soundness

stability

solid faith of the

in

estabhshment of principles, has

single step in the

neither

us a

so

in

strictly

human it

it

shift-

ventured upon a

life-view

logical

The

excistence.

has bartered for

far as

our

in

it

not

did

reach forward, but backward, to that Heathen wisdom

God

of pre-Christian times, of which Paul testified that lias

put

it

to

shame by the

Let

foolishness of the Cross.

no one therefore say: Ye, who, because history does not

go backward, protest against a return to Rome, ye yourhave no right to make a stand on Protestantism

selves

came Modernism. The pertinence of such an objection must be denied, as long as for

ni)'

Protestantism

after

contention

advance

of our

advancement that

what

rather

very

in

bo

not

disproved,

that

century has nothing the

modernism antique,

matter offers

not

in

the

material

common

with

of ethical principles, and us

is

posterior,

not

but

modern, but anterior

to

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