Calvinism a life-system - pagina 69

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. found

They

animals.

in

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dog who adores

are seen in the

and as the homo sapiens developes out of

his

master,

the

chimpanzee, so religion only enters upon a higher Since that time religion has passed through

stage.

the

loosening to pass

namely^

on to what

whole theory

this

entirely

man was maintains

perfect

relations to his

many in

of

that

you

after the

first

will

that

without

human,

is

me

allow

image of man,

God,

i.e.,

man was as

created

in

imbued by a pure

and consequently

the

explains

result of his creation but as

not as the

outcome of

which,

much (if

by

opposed

and absurd forms of religion found

low, imperfect

forms

the

that

religion,

Paganism,

the

in

created after the image of God, never-

theless

and genuine

so

of

were created

to say so) animals just as.

is

theory,

different

or the fact that

animal,

the

all

engaged

again considered a higher stage,

is

denying the preformation in

it is

unconscious feeling for the Unknozvn In-

the

and

other

present

from the bands of Church and dogma,

itself

— Now,

finite.

At

of the gamut.

notes

These low and imperfect

Fall.

his

are

religion

not

be

to

understood

as

a

process that leads from a lower to a higher, but as

a

—a

in

lamentable the

degeneration,

nature

true

religion

Now

in

of the

case,

possible

makes the

only

before

the

face

the

restoration of the soteriological

Standing himself, with

way.

this question,

of God, the Calvinist was so im-

pressed with the holiness of •of guilt

in

which,

the choice between these two theories Calvinism

allows no hesitation. too,

degeneration,

God

immediately lacerated his

that the consciousness soul,

and the

terrible

nature of sin pressed on his heart as with an intolerable 5

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