Calvinism a life-system - pagina 254

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

250 one

that

has

conquered the world; and that

throughout those

fifty

ages the best and most pious of

is

the

our race have paid homage to the Christ of tradition

and rejoiced

in

Him

shadow of

as their Saviour in the

Death.

Though

desiring to be second to none, therefore, in

sincere appreciation of I

to

am

fully

settled

in

what

is

my

noble in such attempts,

conviction that no help

be expected from that quarter.

^

A

virtually destroys the authority of the

as

a

book:

sacred

lack

of

than

a

which sees

development;

recognises

theology which

Holy Scriptures

sin

in

is

Christ

nothing but a

no more

for

genius of central significance; views

religious

redemption as a mere reversal of our subjective mode

and indulges

of thinking;

in a

opposed to the world of the is

like a

inrushing

dam

giving

tide.

It

is

way

mysticism dualistically

intellect,

before the

— such a theology

first

assault of the

a theology without hold upon the

masses, a quasi-religion utterly powerless to restore our sadly tottering moral

May more

to even a

us

it

footing.

in the latter half of this

century by

not too hastily dismiss this question.

history of the Reformation has etablished

a fundamental antithesis between

to

temporary

perhaps be expected from the marvellous

energy displayed

Rome? Let Though the

life

Rome and

ourselves,

would nevertheless be narrow-minded and short-sighted the real power which even now is Rome's warfare against Atheism and Pan-

underestimate

manifest in theism.

Only ignorance of the exhaustive

studies of

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