The Divine Order of Human Society Being the L P Stone Lectures for 1891 Del
The Divine Order of Human Society Being the L P Stone Lectures for 1891 Del
Robert Ellis Thompson
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In pleading for this recognition of a social side to the gospel, I am asking you to establish your- selves more firmly on the ground occupied by the Protestant Reformers generally, and especially by the founders of our Reformed Church. Calvinism in its heroic days was a social as well as a theo- logical faith. It was theocratic to the core. And let us not misunderstand that word "theocratic. " Theocracy, the rule of God in all human affairs, has been too often confounded with hierocracy, the ru...le of a priesthood or a clerg>^ No men ever hated hierocracy with more vehemence than did our fathers, because they regarded it as the great enemy of theocracy, the rule of God. It was their faith in his direct rule over all human spirits and all social relations, which made them the strong men they were, and weighted them — as Emerson says of them — with the weight of the universe. The sovereignty of God was to them no mere THEOCRATIC CALVINISM. 1 3 abstraction. It was the ground of all other sover- eignty and of all authority.
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