Calvinism - pagina 58

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

54 the

of

Triune God;

Him

unto

are

of Him,

for

things.

all

And

Him, and

through

therefore our prayer

remains the deepest expression of all religious is

This

life.

the fundamental conception of religion as maintained

by Calvinism, and

hitherto,

higher conception.

For no higher conception can be

found.

no one has ever found a

The fundamental thought

of Calvinism, at the

same time the fundamental thought of the Christianity

leads, in the

itself,

own

of religion in our

ever

domain of religion

Nor has

realization of the highest ideal.

and of

Bible,

century, in

its

to the

the philosophy

most daring

attained a higher point of view nor a

flights,

more

ideal

conception.

The second it

must be

principal question in

all

religion

is

whether

Must there stand a church,

direct, or mediate.

a priest, or, as of old, a sorcerer, a dispenser of sacred

God and

mysteries, between

the soul, or shall

all inter-

vening links be cast away, so that the bond of religion shall bind the soul directly to in

all

non-Christian

human

intercessors

religions,

are

domain of Christianity

God.

Now we

find that

without any exception,

deemed necessary, and itself

the

intercessor

in the

intruded

again upon the scene, in the Blessed Virgin, in the host of angels, in the saints and martyrs, and in the priestly

hierarchy of the clergy field is

against

called

by

docens' the

On

this

all

and although Luther took the

priestly mediation, yet the church

name, renewed by

his oflice

point

;

its title

of

which

''^ecclesia

of mediator and steward of mysteries.

also

it

was Calvin, and he

alone,

who

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