Calvinism - pagina 200

CALVINISM AND ART.

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proceed to account

in the case, T

convinced that this

fully

for this conviction.

First then the aesthetic to

carried

and

those

ideal heights of

Pantheon,

the

development of divine worship

the

which the Parthenon

Sophia and Saint Peter

Saint

are the stone-embroidered witnesses,

lower

that is

stage,

which the same form of

in

upon a whole

imposed

only possible at

is

religion

by prince and

nation, both

In that case every difference of spiritual expres-

priest.

sion

fuses

this

union

one mode of symbolical worship, and

into

of the masses, under the leadership of the

and

magistrate

the

clergy, furnishes the possibility of

defraying the immense expense of such colossal struct-

and of ornamenting and decorating them.

ures,

however, of a progressive development of the nations,

case,

when

individual

masses, it

conscious

life,

of worship

matured

also

from

into

many from

religion

though slowly,

rises to that

higher plain where

symbolical

the

the unity of the

split

into

the

clearh'-

and thereby necessitates both the division

dianship. In the

it

character-traits

Religion

graduates

and

In the

1

forms, and the emancipation of all

sacerdotal and political guar-

6th century

this

Europe was approaching,

higher level of spiritual development,

was not Lutheranism with

its

subjection of the

whole nation to the religion of the prince, but Calvinism with

its

profound conception of religious

initiated the transition.

nism has made

its

In every country

appearance,

it

has

the

domain

made an end

of religion,

which

where Calvi-

has led to a multiformity

of life-tendencies, in has broken the within

libert}%

and

of sacerdotalism.

power of the State to a great extent

As

a result of this,

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