Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 306

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ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

§ 60.

If

meanwhile you and in part

[Div. Ill

face the fact, that this Revelation

a history,

still

progresses,

and that from

long process a broadly ramified and organic whole is born, you incur the other danger, that in this Revela-

this

germ

tion the saving

grown around

in

it;

is

distinguished from that which has

which way a

retreat is suggested

from

the clearly conscious to the less clearly conscious; which

opens the door to boundless arbitrariness; and ends in a return to mysticism, and in viewing all logical action as

Which

accidental.

evil

still

is

more aggravated by the

consideration that the humblest-minded people should have

the full offer of salvation, and that even children, before they have

awakened

And

be excluded.

to ixwy consciousness,

who

die

should not

this obliges j^ou to conceive the

germ

even the simplest mind can grasp it, and to place the degree of consciousness so loiv, yea, even below zero, as not to exclude the infant that dies at its very to be so small that

birth.

Thus you

interpretation

of

see that special

tliis

exclusively soteriological

Revelation tends directly to

its

from the nature of the case nothing whatever remains of an external revelation as the means of salHence it is no help to vation for the young dying child. you, that along with the logical action you point to divine This may be added to it, but soteriologically illumination. destruction; for

can never be the essential condition.

known, that

And

the fact

is

well

this soteriological interpretation of revelation

as a revelation of salvation has of necessity led

many minds

to seek refuge again in the tents of mysticism;

and

to

deem

themselves accordingly authorized to try to their heart's content their anatomical skill upon the H0I3' Scriptures as upon a corpus vile.

From

difficulty there is no escape, until special no longer viewed as directed soteriologically to Revelation goes out to humanity taken as individual man. Since humanity unfolds itself historically, this a whole. Since this Revelation also bears an historic character.

this

Revelation

humanity

is

exists organically,

this Revelation also

had

having a centrum of action, with a centrum of its

to be organic,

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