Calvinism a life-system - pagina 212

CALVINISM AND ART.

20

And

world that transcends the beautiful of nature. is

what Calvin asserted;

God

which

has

sad consequence of

the

from

us.

— Your

that the arts exhibit gifts

viz.,

placed

our disposal, now

at

that, as

the real beautiful has fled

sin,

depends entirely upon

here

decision

this

your interpretation of the world.

If you are considering

the world as the realisation of the absolute good, then there

none higher, and

is

tion than to

copy nature.

plete

a

phase

further

world

the

that

processes, from the incom-

perfection, then art

to

of

once

zvas

becomes the prophecy of But if you confess

come.

to

life

as the pantheist teaches,

If,

by slow

the world proceed,

beautiful, but

become tmdonc, and by a

has

pass to

its

full

reminding

was

in

than its

art

has

its

this last-mentioned instance

fession.

It realized,

corrupting

more

influences

brance,

nature

From

life

the curse is

to

even the beau-

mystical task of

of the beautiful that perfect is

coming

lustre.

the Calvinistic con-

Rome, the

clearly than

and guided by

hideous,

in the

this

esti-

beauty of original

enchanting remem-

Calvinism prophesied a redemption of outward also, to

be realized

this standpoint,

of the life,

by

catastrophy

of sin; this led to a higher

mation of the nature of paradise righteousness;

the

productions

and of anticipating

lost

Now

us

final

state of glory, excelling

of paradise,

tiful

have no other voca-

art can

Holy Ghost and

enabling

in the reign of celestial glory.

Calvinism honoured art as a

gift

as a consolation in our present

and behind

this sinful

a richer and more glorious background.

Standing

by the

us

to discover in

ruins of this once so wonderfully beautiful crea-

tion, art points out to the Calvinist

both the

still

visible

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