Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 24
Panthelsm''s Destruction of Boundaries. destined }X)iKlcr to complete the
]ioliue.=s
process which here
renmiiis unKnished.
That which
stares ns in tlie face in
all
these parts
is
the effect
of what SchleiernKicher spun, and of what Schelliiig,
more
dangerous!}', emi)r(»i(lered with the glittering thread of gold. It
the recasting of forms, the wii>ing uut of lines, and iitting
is
out the Christian essence
in a
modern philosophic garh.
And
by doing this truth was lost, not merely that objective truth which stands gi-avcn in the tables of our confession, but that inward truth by which this confession meets with the rcsi)onse of It all became a confusion of tongues, *' Anum" from our heart. one cluKJS of floating nnsts. And then Schelling completed in statutarische Relithese men what Kant had begun with his gion^'' bj' inspiri!:g them, as Seholtin expressed it, with the art of proclaiming ''new and strange ideas in ecclesiastical terms ''''
as the decisions of ancient orthodoxy."
man
they jumped after the drowning to save h.irn
down
deep by him
"We do not
let
us grant that
whom
they tried to save.
idealize Ritschl, but after all the chaotic would-
be theology there
him
And
the philosophic stream
but the tragic fate overtook them of being dragged
;
to the
in
is
relief in the clearness of his thought.
Of
known, at least, that he has broken with the old metaphysics. But with Hitschl we wander still further off. Xo single boundary in religion is left unweakened or nnwarped to mark the ancient track. Piety is still demanded, but it must it is
be altogether gratuitous, S[)ontaneous, such as in the
thought
to 1)0
found
Some
in atiimals.
discovered in our house-dogs real
gimiings of "piety," which idea rily it raises
ti-aces
is
the question whether
eiul is also
scholars claim to have
of religion, as
first
be-
so grotesque that involunta-
it
is
likewise
agi'eed to class
Fur an answer to which (since, with Islam cxcei)ted, nionog imy prefei's to be classed with mf>notheism) some clown may point us to the analog_y of their lower love; for the evolution from p(^lygamy to monogamy has not been attained by oni- poodles and our dogs.
them
w'ith polytheists or moiiotlieists.
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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