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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