Calvinism - pagina 215

CALVINISM AND ART. Sovereignty of God,

and our creation

211 after His Like-

ness, necessarily lead to that high interpretation of the

the nature and the vocation of

origin,

by

and

Calvin,

still

The world

stinct.

world of

approved by our own

no other source than God of His

bearers

image,

and

;

it

have

to

a

is

And found

can have

ideas,

our privilege as

perception of this

beautiful world, artistically to reproduce,

to enjoy

artistic in-

of sounds, the world of forms, the

and the world of poetic

tints,

as adopted

art,

and humanly

it.

thus

come

I

We

third and last point.

want of an

the

that

my

to

art-style

of

own,

its

far

from being an objection to Calvinism, on the contrary the higher

indicates that,

stage

we considered how us see

let

its

exalted

from the

the nature of art flows

And now

of

how nobly

After

development.

an interpretation of Calvinistic

principle.

Calvinism has encouraged

the progress of the arts both in principle and in practice.

And to

here,

the

in

first place,

the important fact that

it

I

draw your attention

was Calvinism which, by

releasing art from the guardianship of the Curch, first

recognized naissance

had

Renaissance, ference

majority.

its

for

the

this

the

I

same

do not deny that the Retendency,

but,

with

the

was marred by a too one-sided prePaganistic,

more Heathen than

and a passion

Christian

;

w^iile

for

Calvin,

on

other hand, kept firmly to the Christian ideas, and

ideas

the

more

sharply even than any other Reformer opposed every Paganistic influence.

To

deal justly

however with the older

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