Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 31
Methodlist Review. is
buhjected."
would not signify anytliing if tlic watchers wore fouiul at their post, or, at least, in the Ciunp
Tin's
at the bcjiuidai'ies
But it is well known that the opposite is true. up for its defense are put outside the boundary line. Every boundary of confession is wiped out l)y the pu')proclamation of liberty of doctrine. i;e The Cliurch must be of the Church.
They who
as like a
rise
worldly society as one drop of water
is
Even thoui^h Christ be denied by all the ])eople be named the peo])le's Ciiurch. He wlio believes
like anotlier. it
in
must still no Father
heaven may proclaim unto the people his philosophy as And, when hope is fostered that "believing" theoloijians will rebel against such repulsive contradictions, tlie Vertnittel unf/s-thcologen of every predilection may be seen wilh fully wij)iiig out the confessional boundary and adding ever more freely their philosophic wine to the pure juice of life, as if bent upon the entire destruction of that deeply nuirked boundary line of our Christian mysteries which separates God's holy revelation from our darkened reason. No resistance, therefore, can be looked for from this quarter against what Hermann calls "the spiritual disturbance" of our As long as a spiritual tohu va hohu remains the lauded age. ideal among these leaders no invincible principles of morality; no deeply inculcated convictions of soul, nor any fixcil, general ideas can come to our people from their ecclesiastical guides. But in
(iospol.
the restoration of a iixed point of departure, of a religious and
moral "place where to stand,"
in
view also of the
foretold by our poli-tical meteorologists,
is
social
the only saving
storms
means
by which a footing may be regained by our generation. Recover the faith in a last judgment, and as long as we hold this faith we may calmly witness the constant violation of right in the earth, which is practiced not merely by juiblic offenders, but by legislative boilies and by judges. For our sense of right is secure in that of God, which he himself shall one day avenge. Proceed, liowever, upon the half-truth of the pantheist, that
"the world's history
is
the world's judgment," and
secularize our sense of right
;
that
is,
we may
we must
recognize no
longer any law except that 'which amid constant changes the authorities create and maintain.
And
by
this fluctuating notion
jns const it utum is never at rest) we destroy the majesty of law in the minds of those who live under it.
of right (since the
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1893
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 44 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1893
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 44 Pagina's