Calvinism - pagina 51

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. the

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dominant position occupied by Calvinism

fact that, in the religious

from the

As

deny.

own

Confession,

ganisation,

by one magical

if

own Theology,

its

own Church

its

own Moral

its

new

stroke, its

Discipline,

Praxis.

with

proves

investigation

domain, Calvinism has occupied

a peculiar and impressive position, nobody-

first

will

these

The

domain of our worship of the Most High.

central

and

in the

And

created

it

own Church Orits own Cultus,

continued historical

increasing certainty that

Calvinistic forms for our religious

the logical product of

its

life

all

v/ere

own fundamental thought and

its

the embodiment of one and the

same

principle.

Measure

by the utter incapability Modernism evinced in the same domain by Ever since the absolute fruitlessness of its endeavours. the energy which Calvinism here displayed

it

entered

in

Europe and

its

"mystical" period. Modernism also, both in

America, has acknowledged the neces-

sity of carving out a

our

Hardly

time.

a

tinsel of Rationalism,

retreat

its

piety

in

the

day

it

into

the

for the religious life of

century after the once glittering

now

that Materialism

is

sounding

ranks of science, a kind of hollow

again exercising

is

its

enticing charms,

and every

becoming more fashionable to take a plunge

is

warm stream

sensual delight this cating draught infinite.

new form

It

With an almost

of mysticism.

modern mysticism

quaffs

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

religion, with

a new ritual should be inaugurated, as a higher evolution of religious

a

century,

life.

the

Already, for more than a quarter of dedication

and solemn opening of

this

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