Calvinism a life-system - pagina 182

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

178 the

decay

Christian

deep root among created

heathen,

old

of the

and the

by God,

students, that everything has been

all

that the species of beings have been

brought into existence by special creative

among

these

species

as image-bearer ther,

that

of

the

state

God

and

man

of beings

original

intervening sin;

normal

of the

rise

world-view, the general conviction soon took

acts,

and that

has been created

in original righteousness; fur-

harmony has been broken by

that, in order to restore this ab-

of affairs to

primitive condition,

its

God

means of Regeneration, of Christ as our Mediator and of the Holy Scriptures.

introduced

abnormal

the

There were of course through

all

ages even in large

scoffers, who who took no interest in them but the very few, who during ten centuries scientifically opposed this universal conviction, you may count at once on your The Renaissance doubtless favoured the fingers' end.

derided these facts, and indifferent

numbers, people,

rise

;

of an infidel tendency, which was

Vatican, and

Roman

Humanism

ideals;

felt

even

in the

created enthusiasm for Graeco-

but granted, that after the close of the

middle ages, the opposition of the Normalists made a beginning,

it

yet remains a

fact,

philologians, jurists, physicians uries afterwards

left

that the large host of

and

physicists, for cent-

untouched these foundations, on

which the very old conviction rested. the

eighteenth

century,

that

the

It

was during

opposition

made a

change of front by leaving the circumference and taking

up a position

at the center

losophy which, for the

;

first

set out with the declaration,

and

it

time,

was the newer phion a general

scale,

that the principles of the

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