Calvinism - pagina 265

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CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. Splendid structure, modernism

and against succesfully

this

now

26

confronts Christianity

;

deadly danger, ye, Christians, cannot

your Sanctuary, but by placing,

defend

in

and world-view of your owUy founded as firmly on the base of your own principle^ ivrought out with the same clearness and glittering in opposition

to

a

this,

all

life

an equally

logical consistency.

by

Christian

either

turning-point

that

of humanity

And

of mystical itself

history

in

not obtained

is

and

Reformation.

in

the

to

Calvinism.

in wild

differentiation,

out

is

of the

deniers

in

a

a

Pro-

without further

sense,

name which

chameleon-like

God-man

Only of Calvinism can and

general

And

either a purely negative conception with-

or

content,

There

revolutionary orgies. Luther

never worked out his fundamental thought.

taken

to

Socinianism died an inglorious death;

Anabaptism perished testantism

fruit,

the development

in

a return

this is equivalent to

warmth and our

abundant

in

which was reached

no choice here.

is

full

manifesting

faith

this

works or mysticism, but only by

going back, our hearts personal

Now

it

like to

adopt as their

be said that

it

the

shield.

has consistently

logically followed out the lines of the Reformation,

has established not only churches but also States, has

stamp upon

set its in

the

full

of

man

life

I

first

feel

sense

social

of the

and public

life,

convinced that, after what

no one

thus,

world, created for the whole

a world of thought entirely

Lectures,

and has

will

accuse

I

its

own.

have said

me

in

my

of underrating

Lutheranism; yet the present Emperor of Germany has

no evil

less

than

three times furnished an example of the

after-effect

of Luther's apparently slight mistakes.

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