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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

20 conflict

fought which led to the world-historic breach.

Luther

can

be

without

interpreted

To

Calvin without Luther.

but

Calvin,

not

a great extent Calvin entered

upon the harvest of what the hero of Wittenberg had sown in and outside Germany. But when the question is

put,

Who

had the

worked

principle,

clearest insight into the reformatory-

out most

it

and applied

fully,

it

most

broadly, history points to the Thinker of Geneva and

not to the Hero of Wittenberg.

Luther as well as Calvin

contended for a direct fellowship with God, but Luther took

up from

it

not from

subjective, anthropological side,

its

and

objective, cosmological side as Calvin did.

its

Luther's starting-point was the special-soteriological prinof a justifying faith; while Calvin's extending far

ciple

lay in the general cosmological principle of the

wider,

sovereignty of God.

As

a natural result of this, Luther

also continued to consider the

Church

as the representative

and authoritative "teacher", standing between God and the

Church able,

ill

the

Luther

leaned upon the

in

both to draw the

immediately from in

first

As

believers themselves.

still

first

Moreover,

the

all

God

to

to

seek the

far as

Romish view

and upon the Romish

sacraments,

was the

Calvin was

while

believer,

he was of the

cultus, while Calvin line

which extended

man and from man

to

God.

Lutheran countries the Reformation

originated from the princes rather than from the people,

and thereby passed under the power of the magistrate,

who took highest

his

stand

Bishop,

and

in

the

Church

therefore

either the social or the political its

principle.

Lutheranism

officially

as

her

was unable to change life

in

accordance with

restricted itself to

an exclu-

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