Calvinism a life-system - pagina 219

CALVINISM AND ART.

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and Raphael stored the Romish Cathedrals with treasures of art, quite unique and inimitable, never to be

Thus the

surpassed.

and

and

art,

this

The

patronage.

more patent

old

of

real

energies.

tie

itself

continued to unite church

liberation

From

a

established

permanent

of art required

principle, the

Art, having

to be forced back to her spiritual realm.

hitherto confined herself to the holy spheres, to

make

her appearance in the social world.

Religion

the church.

much

church was

had now

And

in

had to put aside her symbohcal

robes, in order that, after having ascended to the higher spiritual level,

whole world.

her Hfe-giving breath might animate the Just as Von Hartmann truly observes:

pure spiritual Religion which with one hand deprives the artist of his specifically religious art, but which, with the other, offers him, in exchange, a whole "It

is

world, to be religiously animated."

Now Luther certainly

desired such a pure, spiritual Religion, but Calvinism was First under the stirring impulses of the first to grasp it Calvinism, our fathers broke with the splendor ecclcsiae,

with her outward

i. e.,

possessions;

And sive

to

glitter,

and so

by which art was Humanism rebelled

against this oppres-

although

and

effect

also with her vast

financially held in bondage.

unnatural state of things, a radical change

if left

it

to

could never hope its

own

resources.

Only think of Erasmus. Triumph in the struggle of that time was not reserved for the man who carried on the strife for Religious liberty by mere criticism, 'but only for him, who, standing on an higher stage of rehgious development, overcame the symbolical religion as such.

And,

therefore,

we may boldly

assert that

it

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