Calvinism a life-system - pagina 74

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

70

he puts no shackles on

reason

this

wants to

the

into

let

criticise,

him

promise that

the

holds

structure

of

Such

criticise.

will

it

the

science. If a

criticism

man even

deepen our own insight

scriptural edifice.

Only no

Calvinist ever allows the critic to dash out of his hand,

moment, the prism

a

for

ray

divine

No

of hght into

which breaks up the

itself

its

brilliant tints

and colours.

appeal to the grace bestowed inwardly, no pointing

to the fruits of the

Holy Ghost, can enable him

to dis-

pense with the necessitas which the soteriological stand-

among

of religion

point

mere

entities

Unconscious

we life

sinners

share our

life

carries

we share with

his

That

reason.

and

beings,

as

wide

vital function, is to

t

y

demands

has lost

us,

as

higher

awake

men, if

our

/?///

is

religion,

self-

as the highest

operate also in that highest sphere

of self-consciousness, religion,

man who

distinguishes

and therefore,

conscionsness^

As'

it.

the children, and with

the sleeping man, and even with the

which

with

with plants and animals.

it

must follow that

soteriological

next to the necessitas of inward palingenesis, also

the

necessitas

of an

revelation to be kindled in our twilight.

assistant

And

light,

of

this assistant

coming from God Himself, but handed to us by human agency, beams upon us in His holy Word. light

Summing up the results of our investigations In I may express my conclusion as follows.

far,

thus

each

four great problems of religion, Calvinism

one

of the

has

expressed

its

conviction in an appropriate dogma,

and each time has made that choice which even now, after three centuries, satisfies the most ideal wants, and leaves

the

way open

for

an ever richer development.

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