Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 249

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UPON OUR VIEW OF THEOLOGY

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and cosmical life. This palinintroduced spiritually by an act of God's Spirit

after appear in the somatical

genesis

is

humanity (inspiration in its broadest and somatically by an act of the power of God in the natural life of the world (miracles in their widest interpretation). From which it follows that all study of science, where the investigator occupies the view-point of palingenesis, must reckon with the four phenomena: (1) of personal regeneration and (2) of its corresponding inspiration in the spiritual life of

sense),

;

(3) of the final restoration of all things;

corresponding

and (4)

of its

God's power in miracles {NiphleotK). These four phenomena have no existence to the scientist who starts out from naturalistic premises. On manifestation of

the contrary, his principle and starting-point compel him to cancel these phenomena, or, where this is not possible, to explain them naturalistically. He, on the other hand, who has personally been taken up into this powerful, all-dominating activity of palingenesis, finds his starting-point in these

very phenomena, and mistrusts every result of investigation which does not entirely correspond to them. If now this palingenesis applied only to the religious life, one could

say that the faculty of Theology alone

But

it.

this is not at all the case.

is

bound

to deal

Palingenesis

is

versal conception which dominates your whole person, all of life

about you

with

a uni-

and

moreover, palingenesis is a power that exerts an influence not merely in your religious, but equally in

your

;

ethical, sesthetical,

and

intellectual

Physician, a Philologian, and a Physicist,

come under the action

ally its

influence as well as

life.

Jurist, a

person-

of this palingenesis, experience

the Theologian, and not only in

their emotional but in their intellectual life.

has been too

A

who have

much overlooked

This, indeed,

in earlier periods;

where-

fore the consequences of palingenesis have been looked for in Tlieology alone, and thus the mischievous demand has

been imposed upon the other sciences that they should subject themselves to the utterances of Theology in those points also which did not pertain to its object of investigation.

The Reformed alone have

established the rule with

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