Calvinism a life-system - pagina 180

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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the abnormal; the miracle of regeneration; the miracle of the Scriptures

as

God

;

the miracle in the Christ, descending

own

with his

life

into ours

and thus, owing

;

to this

regeneration of the abnormal, they continue to find the ideal

norm not

Not

and

faith

systems

or

in the natural

if

but

in the

therefore,

science

you choose, two

but

be said that

it

theology, for

we have

science, both of

is

it

tivo scientific

scientific elaborations,

are opposed to each other, eacJi having

Nor may

Triune God.

own

its

faith.

here science which opposes

two absolute forms of

to do with

which claim the whole domain^of human

knowledge, and both of which have a suggestion about

own

the supreme Being of their

ure for is

as the point of depart-

Pantheism as well as Deism

their world-view.

a system about God, and without reserve the entire

modern theology Normalists.

And

the Normalists

finds

its

home

finally these

in the science of the

two

scientific

systems of

and the Abnormalists are not

relative

opponents, walking together half way, and, further on, peaceably suffering one another to choose different paths,

but they are both

in earnest,

domain of

the whole

life,

disputing with one another

and they cannot

the constant endeavor to pull

down

desist

from

to the ground the

entire edifice of their respective controverted assertions, all

the

rest.

If

supports included, upon which their assertions

they

show on both in

did

not

sides, that

try

this,

they would thereby

they did not honestly believe

their point of departure, that they

combatants, primordial

and that they

demand

unity of conception.

did

not

were no serious understand

the

of science, which of course claims

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