By Hans Mol
ISBN-10: 1921313978
ISBN-13: 9781921313974
ISBN-10: 1921313986
ISBN-13: 9781921313981
This paintings is a chain of sermons produced by means of Emeritus Professor Hans Mol, and in accordance with Biblical texts, the Commentaries of John Calvin on those texts, and on Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian faith. Mol is Australia’s pre-eminent student within the sociology of faith, relatively in Australia. His 1971 quantity, faith in Australia, was once the 1st test at statistical research of faith in Australia, which was once additionally the world over major. Parallel to Mol’s curiosity within the sociology of faith has been his curiosity in Calvin. certainly the theological foundation of his existence has been as a Calvinist. the following during this quantity he brings either one of those pursuits jointly. His sermons, preached through the years in Canberra, search to use the lessons of Calvin to a world-view during which the clinical research of faith, and certainly the broader examine of sociology, are of vital importance. In those sermons, he succeeds significantly during this. the quantity is a considerable contribution to scholarship, in that the mix of those components has simply hardly ever been tried. therefore, the amount has originality and may have enduring worth. it's specifically applicable that it may be released at the moment, in coaching for the five hundredth Anniversary of Calvin's start (1509–2009).
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The problem crops up again and again both in the Bible and in actual life. All universal religions struggle with the greater accessibility and therefore believability of the material as compared with the spiritual, the concrete as compared with the abstract, or to use St Paul’s language, the ‘flesh’ compared with the spirit, or to keep humans focused on their physical integrity rather than on what lifts them beyond ego and self. Certainly a great deal of theological writings and concern hinges on this conflict.
The solution therefore is ‘that this passion should be directed to a different subject. ’ Yet power is also a necessity. ‘As to the degree in which some men rise above others, it is not our business to inquire, and God did not intend that it should be revealed to us by Christ, but that it should be reserved till the latest revelation. ’ Here Calvin admits that the practical order and civic administrations have their own merits, however much they fall short of God’s more comprehensive vision. Calvin could have strengthened his argument about the danger of power if he had read The Prince by his contemporary Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), written in 1513 to get back into the graces of the Medici in Florence, but not published until after his death.
He was put on the throne to pacify the recalcitrant nation by providing it with a token self-government. By contrast the Pharisees wanted Jesus to bless and therefore strengthen their resistance to the foreigners occupying Israel. Jesus refuses to do either. Both are attempts to use God for conflicting purposes and therefore implicit acts of rebellion. None allows God to be God and to be worshipped for what God is in God’s own right rather than what others want God to be. But Jesus also has to be practical.
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