Calvinism - pagina 68

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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things,

All partial

shuts

eyes

his

to

it,

admonished, with equal emphasis, and

nevertheless all

maybe

or

the higher Hght,

give glory

to

drives

religion

name

the

to

in

of the Lord.

wedge of dualism

the

is

into

but the true Calvinist never forsakes the standard

life,

One supreme calling must impress the stamp of one-ness upon all human life, because one God upholds and preserves it, just as He created it all. of religious monism.

This

brings

without any

us,

our fourth main question, or abnormal, I

have

in

whether facto as

in

with

having

assume a idea,

start

to

the

man

as

highest

gradual

to

Now

character.

the prevailing

a whole

matter of

and imperfect

be the

rule.

as

should conform already

norm.

religious

a

Not of course

being normal.

This

nobody

affirms.

make such an absurd fact, we meet with much to

religious

But precisely

development conin this

slow and

progress from the lowest forms to the highest

ideals, the

of

nonnal, or

and having therefore become

Everyone knows better than

tinues

which

favours the view that religion has to

our race

irreligiousness,

distinction

the latter case religion must necessarily

soteriological

As

The

concerned with the question,

is

fallen into sin,

as

statement.

to

religion he 7wrmal,

his present condition as

in

man

from

transition,

matter of religion we must reckon de

the

present,

at

though

mind here

In

abnoniial.

Must

viz.y

soteriologicalf

i.e.,

further

religion

development demanded by contends

According to

this

that

it

view, the

has first

this

normal view

found confirmation. traces of religion are

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