Calvinism - pagina 35

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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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melled development

of our

Himself as Creator.

Thus the Church receded

be

to

more nor

neither

and

believers,

which

in

life

glorify in

order

than the congregation of

less

every department the

in

to

life

of the world

was not emancipated from God, but from the dominion of the Church.

dence,

trade

Thus domestic life regained its indepenand commerce realized their strength in

and science were

liberty, art

bond and restored

astical

and man began nature a

as

with

its

holy

world

the

their

the

imposed

own

ecclesi-

inspirations,

of

subjection

upon him by the

all

original

dominion over them".

'''Have

curse should no longer rest upon the

but upon that which

itself,

from every

hidden forces and treasures to himself

of Paradise:

Henceforth

to

understand

to

duty,

ordinances

set free

is

sinful in

and

it,

from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life. To praise God in the Church and serve of monastic

instead

Him

in

flight

the world became the inspiring impulse, and,

in

the Church, strength was to be gathered

to

resist

temptation and sin

went hand

sobriety

tanic

of the entire

in

by which Thus

the world.

puri-

hand with the reconquest

in

of the world, and Calvinism gave the

life

impulse to that new development which dared to face the

world

with

me alienum intoxicated

the

its

Especially in

opposite

world

it

itself to

be

poisonous cup.

its

antithesis to

exhibits itself in bold

the

thought: nil humanuni a

although never allowing

picto,

by

Roman

method,

relief.

and

Anabaptism Calvinism

For Anabaptism adopted in

its

effort

to

evade the

confirmed the monastic starting-point, general-

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