Calvinism - pagina 214

CALVINISM AND ART.

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Our capacity

the bearers of His Image.

Him and

after

what He

may

cosmos,

in

and

lines

We

in

tints,

;

our

in

to reproduce

our Painting;

fashion,

to embellish life,

animated

to transfuse the

And

mystical spheres in our Music and in our Poetry. all this

own

because the beautiful

not the product of our

is

fantasy, nor of our subjective perception, but has

an objective existence, being

itself

the expression of a

Divine perfection.

After the Creation,

things were good.

Imagine that every

closed and every beautiful remains,

God saw that all human eye were

human ear stopped up, even then and God sees it and hears it, for,

only "His Eternal Power", but also His

very creation, has been perceived

the

in

a kind of

create

monument;

Architectural

our

nature's forms, in Sculpture

by

So we,

God's handiwork.

imitate

can only consist

created,

of art.

the unreal creations

to create after

An

both spiritually and somatically.

he

how

'•'Divinity",

the

not

from

in his creature,

may

artist

own

notice

capacity

this in himself.

If

depends upon

having an eye for art, he must necessarily

come in

We

his

art-

to the conclusion that the original eye for art

God

and

his

realizes

Himself,

Whose

capacity

art

is

is

all-producing,

Whose image the artist among men was made. know this from the creation around us, from the

after

firmament

that

overarches

us,

from

the

luxury of nature, from the wealth of forms

abounding in

man and

animal, fron) the rushing sound of the stream and from

the

song

beauty

of the

exist,

how could all this by One Who preconceived

nightingale

except created

the

beautiful in His

His

own Divine

own

;

for

Being, and produced

perfection?

Thus you

see

it

from

that the

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