Calvinism a life-system - pagina 271

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

any one having made a botanic study of growth,

Calvinism, in

But now

this

its

rise,

may no

study

the biography and

267

rather acted than argued.

world of ideas that with the

now be

biology of Calvinism must

we more

of self-knowledge, is

Both

longer be delayed.

thoroughly investigated and thought out, lack

nature and

its

or,

with our

be side-tracked into a

shall

at discord

than

in

consonance

of our Christian democracy, and cut loose

life

from the root on which we once blossomed so vigorously.

Only through such study what

I

named

become

will there

in the third place: the

possible

development of the

principles of Calvinism in accordance with the needs of

our modern consciousness, and their application to every

department on this;

in

for

all

its

I

life.

do not exclude theology from

theology too exercises ramifications

;

and

its

is,

it

influence

upon

life

therefore, sad to see

how even the theology of the Reformed Churches has in so many a country come under the sway of wholly systems.

foreign

one of the

many

But,

Philosophy,

dence,

the

medical

and

events, theology

all

sciences that

ment.

when

at

social

demand

psychology, sciences,

natural

sciences,

each

only

Calvinistic treat-

aesthetics,

literature,

is

jurispru-

and even the

and

all

of these,

philosophically conceived, go back to principles,

and of necessity even the question must be put with much

more

penetrating

seriousness

than

hitherto,

whether

the ontological and anthropological principles that reign

supreme in

in

the

present

method of these

sciences are

agreement with the principles of Calvinism, or are

at variance with their very essence.

Finally I would add to these three

demands

— historically

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