Calvinism a life-system - pagina 62

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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vention disappears, where God's sovereign election from

God

eternity binds the inward soul directly to

all

and where

ray of divine light enters straightway

the

the depth of our heart,

into

most absolute

in its

This

me,

leads

question:

and

if its

follows

ideal realization.

is

the

and

man

every

that

occurrences of his

life

clerical

media-

In that case

in

his religious

which he finds

The partial

character

three particulars

itself in

which, and in the group ofpersons

it

confines his religion

organ through which,

religious

himself

by which

intervention at his disposal.

shows

?

man

ih

but partial.

be

of this sort of religion in

religious

all-subduing,

it

needs are stirred, and to those cases

human

third

the

to

be made dependent on

cannot

logically

those

to

realization

religion

tors,

naturally,

its

aim of religion be found

the

if

sense, gain

there does religion,

universal in the strict sense of the word

comprehensive,

Now,

— only

religion partial^ or

Is

Himself,

in the spJiere in

among which,

religion

has to thrive and flourish.

Recent controversy affords a pertinent the

first

limitation.

The

wise

maintain that religion has to of the either

human

intellect.

It

men

retire

clinations

are

practical

hailed

will.

with

of our generation

from the precinct

must seek to express

by means of the mystical

means of the

illustration of

feelings,

itself

or else by

Mystical and ethical in-

enthusiasm, in the domain

same domain the intellect, as in of religion, leading to metaphysical hallucinations, must be muzzled. but

Metaphysics

and

that

Dogmatics are increasingly tabooed,

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