The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 20

prayer.

confess frankly that

I

collects of the

and thereupon leading the

Elias' miracles,

I

felt

unable to explain such a bold

contrast of personal conviction and outward performance. it

But how greatly

of insincerity.

essence

the

common I

thought

was mistaken.

I

was no unfairness whatever. What do you be unfair, if taking part in the play of your

"O, no, said he, there

Would

think?

it

you

children,

as earnestly as the

performed,

What

of king which your boy had assigned you.

could

God,

Of

they

as

course

we

real,

be

there

prevent

we

if

from

considered

ourselves

to

me

is

a symbolical delicacy.

and

Roman

conversion

principles

bolism,

the in

by

in

in

the

first

Germany

Symbolism

in

half

let to

many famous Lutheran scholars and Rome; and this can not surprise us. As vital

probleem, Rome's strength

lies

in

understood perfectly well the two different

involved in the antithesis between Revelation and

Revelation

it.

Rome

and avoiding,

dogmatical

Already

Romantic school

great

of a

with the solution of every her compromise.

modern

opinion of these

in all its branches.

the Church of

artists to

the

various denominations the Episcopalian

century the so-called

this

in

Catholic Church possesses above the Pro-

among our

above the presbyterian,

the

which

preference,

symbolistes, the

of

more conscious and

of the scientists."

life

Hence the testant,

your elaborate

in

church performances that unite the more child-

like existence of the ordinary people with the

cultured

ask you, could

I

your Christian high-styled poetry, or

enjoying

our own feelings by partaking

very

these

those performances as

all

But now, what,

Even the holy supper

symbohcs? is

playing and singing with the children of

one

could not join in them. us

hypocrisy, then,

themselves, and of partaking in their worship?

call

ennobling

from

It

in

ones, the part

little

as

Sym-

always, every absolute choice, kept to

her confession, but at the same time indulged

for her worship.

So

Rome

possesses an elaborate

system, but without troubling the mind of the people

The church

thinks

for

the

people,

their's is the "fides

implicita" the implicit faith. In that „implicit faith" to adhere to the

church

is

considered to

be satisfactory

for the laity.

And

thus

the Revelation being secured, clergy and laity both are allowed to

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