Calvinism - pagina 212

CALVINISM AND ART.

208

And

world that transcends the beautiful of nature. is

what Calvin asserted;

God

which from

us.

— Your

that the arts exhibit gifts

viz.,

placed

our disposal,

at

consequence of

sad

the

has

now

that, as

the real beautiful has fled

sin,

depends entirely upon

here

decision

this

your interpretation of the world.

If

you are

considering"

the world as the realisation of the absolute good, then there

none higher, and

is

copy nature.

tion than to

plete

a

phase

further

world

the

that

become

has

pass to

its

reminding

of

tuidone,

full

us

life

once

and by a

in

than

has

art

Now

this

last-mentioned instance It realized,

more

influences

its

brance,

is

to

of sin

;

task of

mystical

of the beautiful that perfect is

coming

lustre.

the Calvinistic con-

clearly than

Rome, the

hideous,

this led to a higher esti-

mation of the nature of paradise ;

the

productions

its

and of anticipating

righteousness

you confess

catastrophy

final

lost

corrupting

if

but by the curse

beautiful,

was

fession.

But

come.

to

ivas

becomes the prophecy of

state of glory, excelling even the beau-

of paradise,

tiful

processes, from the incom-

perfection, then art

to

as the pantheist teaches,

If,

by slow

the world proceed,

have no other voca-

art can

and guided by

in the

this

beauty of original

enchanting remem-

Calvinism prophesied a redemption of outward

nature also, to be realized in the reign of celestial glory.

From

this standpoint,

of the life,

life

Holy Ghost and

enabling

us

a richer and

by the

Calvinism honoured art as a

to

gift

as a consolation in our present

discover in and behind this sinful

more

glorious background.

Standing

ruins of this once so wonderfully beautiful crea-

tion, art points out to the Calvinist

both the

still

visible

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