Calvinism a life-system - pagina 260

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

256

He who

spiritually higher standpoint.

not go back-

will

wards, but reaches after higher things, must therefore either

stand by the world-view once developed by Protestantism,

on the other hand,

or,

to

a

out

point

what the

conceivable,

is

Now

this

is

modern philosophy does indeed presume

man

acknowledging Luther as a great

do,

Kant and Darwin the

but hailing in

time,

too

this

standpoint

higher

still

latter

for

for his

apostles of

much richer gospel. But this need not detain us. For our own age, however great in invention, in the display a

of powers of

mind and energy, has not advanced

us a

single step in the establishment of principles, has in

wise given us a higher view of greater

neither

and

religious

solid faith of the

e.

i.

truly

Reformation

and

ing hypotheses;

systematised

nor greater soundness

stability

ethical

and

human it

strictly

logical

it

our

in

The

excistence.

has bartered for

so far as

in

no

and has yielded us

life,

shift-

ventured upon a

life-view

it

not

did

reach forward, but backward, to that Heathen wisdom

God

of pre-Christian times, of which Paul testified that

has put

it

to

shame by the

no one therefore say

:

Let

foolishness of the Cross.

Ye, who, because history does not

go backward, protest against a return to Rome, ye yourhave no right to make a stand on Protestantism

selves for

after

Protestantism came

Modernism.

The

perti-

nence of such an objection must be denied, as long as

my

contention

be

not

disproved,

advance of our century has nothing I

advancement

\that

in

the

what modernism

rather

very antique,

matter offers

not

the

that in

material

common

with

of ethical principles, and us

is

posterior,

not

but

modern, but anterior

to

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