Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 17
Methodist Review.
ophy
call
and
rest,
])liilosoi)Lic
no
tliat
of pantheistic philos-
failure
tlie
lonn^er he concealed,
in the evolution
still
is
it
Jiheory that the harmful impulse of pantheism works in the
most seductive manner, since
it
spends
all its
power
to maintain
the nonexistence of separating houndaries in every dej)artment
Valentinus, the most sensible of (inostics,
of our knowledge.
hut was so
dfcji),
hack of the creation to the [ivOoq (the of the danger for the erasure
evolution
relegated
of boundaries
much aware
which concealed
the Iloros, or Ilorkos, that
nance of the fixed order of ever strange
its
form,
is
that exists.
God
stands or
tenance or removal of boundaries. lie himself
is
to appear in the
God
the chief boundary for
effacement of boundaries tion of the idea of
God.
form of
This thought, how-
nevertheless entirely correct as a poetic
Faith in the living
image.
God
the boundary for the mainte-
is,
all
in this that out of the
itself
AvTOTTaTup he makes suddenly a
is
falls
with the main-
created the boundaries.
all his
creatures,
and the
virtually identical with the oblitera-
If,
then,
it
be never so true that mod-
ern philosophy "began with doubt and ended with despair" this
whole pantheistic stream has left a j)oisonous slime upon it is in Darwin's evolution theory that this slime
the shore, and reveals It
its
may
power. truly be said that with all differences of opinion this
evolution theory
is
the "formula of unity," which
unites
of
modern
all priests
at'
present
science in their secularized temple.
A few dreatners may utter com])laints against this, but they are aged manikins, who, as described by Ilartman, " feel themselves incapable of a second education, but whose numbers liave so long been diminishing that they are powerless to stop tho victor's march of the new truth." This evolution theory has become the fashion-system, not merely with the Darwins and Ilacckels, the Spencers and the jSTagelis, but equally so with our theologians, with our psychologists and moralists. Even an
adherent of Lotze,
my
learned colleague Dr.
of the city university, wrote
only recently:
De
la Saussaye,
"Xowhere
is
a
between the domains of nature and of spirit clearly demonstrable, nor may an unmixed expression be predidefinite frontier
cated of either sphere." Ihit critical
we
are most concerned about the favor with which this
theory gains
among our jurists
(tho divinely appointed
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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