Calvinism a life-system - pagina 17

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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known as Paganism, Islamism and Romanism, by which we distinguish four entirely different worlds in the one collective world of human life. And if, speaking precisely, you should coordinate Christianity and not Calvinism with Paganism and Islamism, it is nevertheless better to place Calvinism in line with them, because Calvinism

embody

claims to

Romanism and Lutheranism.

accurately than could

and

of Russia

world

Greek

the

more purely and

the Christian idea

the national element

Balkan

the

In

States,

dominant, and therefore the

is still

Christian faith in these countries has not yet been able

produce a form of

to

orthodoxy.

mystical

its

of the

interference

working of the only can

own. to

be

Lutheran

countries,

the

magistrate has prevented the free

Hence of Romanism

spiritual principle. said, that

Calvinism

it,

create a different

form

human

for

different

of the

That and

In

the root of

own from

its

has embodied

it

life-thought

its

world of conceptions and utterances entirely its But by the side of Romanism, and in opposition

a

in

it

of

life

is

made life,

method of

human this

not merely to

appearance,

its

Church-form, but an entirely different to furnish

existence,

human

society with

a

and to populate the world

heart with different ideals and conceptions.

had not been

realised

now acknowledged by

friend

until

our time,

and enemy

in

consequence of a better study of history, should not This would not have been the case, if surprise us. Calvinism had entered

'and had presented its

the

origin

came about

order of existence,

as a well-constructed system,

life

itself

as an

in

an

life

is

outcome of study.

entirely different first.

And

But

way. In

to Calvinism

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