Calvinism - pagina 39

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

And

to West can be denied by none. in

justified

ism

over

Calvinism

turn

in

hands

the

into

now

is

of

Calvinism

this

direction

further

its

am

Roman-

formations which

successive

three

development had reached, when passed

therefore I

saying: that Paganism, Islamism 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 outHned

divisions

and

This development of life

parts.

and therefore each new period roots

is

organic,

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 in his Epistle to the Romans and from Paul goes back ;

to

and

Israel

prophets,

its

Romanism

patriarchs.

likewise

pearance suddenly, but

is

and

world-organization

to

in

the same

the Prophet

the Koraishites.

tents

does not

make

other,

its

ap-

way

Roman

Empire.

joins itself to Israel's

Monism,

of Nazareth,

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

priesthood, the cross of Calvary,

of Israel's

Islam

the

the joint product of the three

potencies

the

yea to

Rome

stand organically related to what lay

behind these nations, preceding the prosperity of their hves. force

But even in

the

moved along Greece and

Papal

so,

it

central

is

as clear as

day that the supreme

development of the human race

successively from Babylon

Rome, then

to

and Egypt to

the chief regions of the

dominion, and finally to the Calvinistic nations

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