Calvinism a life-system - pagina 39

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

And

West can be denied by none.

to

justified

ism

in

three

over

Calvinism

turn

in

hands

the

into

now

is

I

Calvinism

of

this

direction

further

its

am

Roman-

formations which

successive

development had reached, when passed

therefore

saying: that Paganism, Islainisni and

the

are

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and that

;

denied this leading influence

by Modernism, the daughter of the French Revolution.

The did

of these four phases of development

succession

not take place mechanically, with sharply outlined

divisions

and

This development of life

parts.

and therefore each new period roots

organic,

is

in the past. In its

deepest logic Calvinism had already been apprehended

by Augustine; had, long before Augustine, been proclaimed to the City of the seven hills by the Apostle

Romans

in his Epistle to the

to

and

Israel

its

Romanism

patriarchs.

is

world-organization

in

Israel's

the same

does not

make

other,

its

ap-

way

Empire.

joins itself to Israel's

Monism,

And

of

the

and to

the tradition of

even the Paganism of Babylon

and Egypt on the one hand, and of Greece and

upon the

of the

Roman

the Prophet of Nazareth,

the Koraishites.

tents

priesthood, the cross of Calvary,

of

and Islam

the

to

the joint product of the three

potencies

to

and from Paul goes back yea

likewise

pearance suddenly, but

the

;

prophets,

stand organically related to

Rome

what lay

behind these nations, preceding the prosperity of their lives.

force

But even in

the

moved along Greece and Papal

so,

it is

central

as clear as

day that the supreme

development of the human race

successively from Babylon and

Rome, then

to

the

Egypt

to

chief regions of the

dominion, and finally to the Calvinistic nations

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