Calvinism a life-system - pagina 51

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. dominant position

the

fact that, in the religious

from the

first

a peculiar

As

will

deny.

own

Confession,

in the

The

domain, Calvinism has occupied

and impressive

by one magical

if

its

its own Church own Moral Praxis.

its

proves

investigation

new

with

its

Discipline,

And

position, nobody-

stroke,

own Theology,

ganisation,

these

by Calvinism

occupied

domain of our worship of the Most High.

central

and

47

created

it

its

own Church Orits own Cultus,

continued historical

increasing certainty that

Calvinistic forms for our religious

all

were

life

own fundamental thought and the embodiment of one and the same principle. Measure the energy which Calvinism here displayed by the utter incapability Modernism evinced in the same domain by the logical product of

its

the absolute fruitlessness of it

entered

in

Europe and

its

in

America, has acknowledged the neces-

tinsel of Rationalism,

retreat

its

in

the

now

day

it

into

the

for the religious after the

warm stream

cating draught

that Materialism

its

is

enticing charms,

sounding

and every

It

With an almost

of mysticism.

modern mysticism

quaffs

ritual

of religious

century,

its

intoxi-

from the nectar-cup of some intangible

was even purposed

that,

on the ruins of the

once so stately Puritanic building, a new

a

of

becoming more fashionable to take a plunge

is

sensual delight this

a new

life

once glittering

ranks of science, a kind of hollow

again exercising

is

infinite.

new form

Hardly a century

our time.

Ever since

endeavours.

"mystical" period. Modernism also, both

sity of carving out a

piety

its

religion,

with

should be inaugurated, as a higher evolution life.

the

Already, for more than a quarter of dedication

and solemn opening of

this

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