Calvinism a life-system - pagina 53

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. Here four arise

;

—

Man?

for

Can

Must

2.

Can

bear

it

i.

questions

Calvinism

be

e.,

not

sake of

human It may

operations or has

its

a

answers

and

egotistical,

God.

or must

normal,

2.

has

It

reveal an

it

To

these four

man, but

ideal,

from

directly,

the heart.

character

spring,

3.

not remain partial, as running alongside of life,

And

but must lay hold upon our zvhole existence. Its.

for the

to operate not mediately, by-

but

interposition,

3.

to

Man's religion ought

i.

:

for

it

and existence?

a soteriological character?

abnormal^

to

in

zvhole of our personal being

embrace the and, 4.

exist for the sake of God, or

operate directly or mediately?

it

remain partial

it

fundamental questions

dependent

mutually

Does Religion

i.

49

should be soteriological,

not from

i.

e.,

it

4.

should

our fallen nature, but from the neiv

man, restored by palingenesis

to his original standard.

Allow me then successively to elucidate each of these four points.

Modern

religious

philosophy

religion to a potency,

from which

but which acted merely, as It

the

has

ascribes

its

it

the

origin of

could not originate,

supporter and preserver.

mistaken the dead prop of the living shoot for

living

properly,

shoot to

the

itself.

Attention

is

called,

and very

contrast between man, and the over-

whelming power of the cosmos which surrounds him and now trying of the

to

religion

introduced

is

strengthen

cosmos which

as a mystical energy,

him against

inspires

this

immense power

him with such deadly

fear.

Being conscious of the dominion which his unseen soul

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