Calvinism a life-system - pagina 255

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

Romish philosophy and of Rome's social

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successful efforts in

could account for such a superficial judgment.

life,

Calvin in his day already acknowledged that, as against

from the Great Deep, he considered Romish so-called orthodox Protestant believers his allies, need only mark in his confession and catechism such a spirit

A

of religion and morals as are not subject to

doctrines

Rome

between

controversy

immediately, that what

to perceive

and ourselves,

we have

common

in

with

Rome

concerns precisely those fundamentals of our Christian

most fiercely assaulted by the modern on the points of the ecclesiastical Undoubtedly spirit. hierarchy, of man's nature before and after the Fall,

now

creed

of justification, of the mass, of the invocation of saints

and

of the

'angels,

worship

of purgatory

of images,

and many others, we are as unflinchingly opposed to Rome as our fathers were. But does not current literature show that these are not now the points on which of the age

the struggle lines of battle

Pantheism; Christ

cross

the

the

of

cross

given

by

drawn

'God a as

against

:

Theism over against

imperfection; the divine

against Jesus

over

the

of reconciliation

sacrifice

Are not the

concentrated.?

as follows

over

sin

is

mere man; over against

a symbol of martyrdom; the Bible

inspiration

of

God over against commandments as

as

a purely

ordained human product; by God over against a mere archaeological document; the ordinances of God absolutely established over against the

ten

'an ever-changing law and morality spun out of man's subjective j

is

consciousness

.^

Now

in

this

not an antagonist7T)ut stands on our

conflict side,

Rome

inasmuch

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