Calvinism a life-system - pagina 253

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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phalanx of theologians from Schleiermacher to Pfleiderer

name

continued to pay high honours to the

but

of Christ,

equally undeniable that this remained possible

is

it

only by subjecting Christ and the Christian confession

A

metamorphoses.

bolder

ever

to

painful

one which becomes absolutely evident,

now

creed

the

current in

Even confining been

the

Common

died.

years

substantially

has

we

find

as the '-'Creator of heaven

and

standard of

God

the belief in

that

you compare

ourselves to the Apostles' creed, which

two a thousand

almost

for

Christians,

all

has been abolished; for creation has been sup-

earth"

by

planted

Abolished

evolution.

God

belief 'in

the

also

has

with

further,

ascension

been the

Son, as born of the Virgin Mary,

through conception from the Holy Ghost.

many, the

and return

belief in

Abolished

His resurrection and

to judgment.

even the belief of the church

Abolished

finally

in the resurrection of the

dead, or at least in the resurrection of the body.

name but in

but

these circles with the con-

which our Martyrs

fession for

if

fact,

of the Christian

essence

in

it

principle,

its

is

still

The

being retained,

has become a quite different religion

even of a diametrically opposite cha-

And when

racter.

religion

incessantly

the

charge

is

brought

that in point of fact the traditional Christ

against

us,

of the

Church involves a complete metamorphosis of

the genuine Jesus, whilst the lifted

the

Jesus

of

veil

off the

interpretation has

we can but answer, that not this modern conception of

Nazareth,

historically,

modern

true character of the historical after

all,

Jesus of

Nazareth but the Church's confession of the God-Man

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