Calvinism a life-system - pagina 196

CALVINISM AND ART.

192 Iconoclasm,

cannot but be incapable either of

development or of

real,

word therefore about

brief

strong prejudice

this

"Wer

nicht

Weib, Wein und Gesang",

liebt

beyond dispute that Luther was more posed

A here

is

Without putting too high an estimate upon

in order.

his:

artistic

noteworthy art-production.

than

is

artistically dis-

but what does this prove?

Calvin;

it

Will

you deny Hellenism

its

of

beautiful, Socrates boasted of the

sense

all

of the

artistic laurels because,

beauty of his giant nose because

more

pass

to

and Paul, a

in

the

single

artistic

any

freely

life.-*

three

Do

?

fact

the

in

Christian Church,

Gospels, of Christ ever pleading

have

its

enjoyment

And when

.!*

one by one, must be answered

questions

that

of the

word betray any special appreciation of Yea, be it asked reverently, is there

instance,

negative,

allowed his breath

the writings of Joljn, Peter

pillars

for art as such, or seeking

these

it

devoid

you therefore the

Christianity

as such

has

right

to

in the

deny the

been of an almost

invaluable significance to the development of art? if

not,

why

mere ground that Calvin personally had for art?

Beggars,

And

then would you accuse Calvinism on the

And when you

little

feeling

speak of the Iconoclasm of the

should you forget that in the 8th century in

the

midst

of the

the

manly

spirit

artistic

of

violent Iconoclasm

?

and

beautiful Grecian world

Leo Isaurus

instigated a

still

more

and should therefore the honour be

denied to Byzantianism

of having produced the finest

monuments? Do you ask for still further proof to the contrary? Well, more sharply even than Leo Isaurus in the 8th century or the Netherland's Beggars in the i6th

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