Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 372

348

At

REPUESENTATIONS CONCERNING

§68.

HI

compelled the understanding to adapt and

this

tirst

[Div.

accommodate

itself to

the authorit}- of the Holy Scripture,

maintained a high position. But, in the long run, roles were to be exchanged, and the neglect of the formal principium was to bring about a revision of wliich then

still

the Scripture in the sense of our darkened understanding,

For if faith was considas has noAV actually taken place. ered under Soteriology, and in connection with faith the " illumination,"' what help was this, as long as theology itself was abandoned to the rational subject, in which rational subject, from the hour of his creation, no proper and separate principium of knowing God had been allowed to assert itself? § 68.

Different Mepresentations concerning the Operation of this

In the

section of

first

Principium this chapter, it

has been shown

that the possession of a special principium of

knowing

is

God is never knowledge of God must

indispens;il)le to theology, for the reason that

a passive phenomenon, so that

all

Hence

ever be the fruit of self-revelation on His side. is

it

the distinct nature of the object of theology which ren-

ders a special principium of

knowing necessary.

This

is

essentially agreed upon, without distinction, by all who still hold fast to theology in its original sense. Not hj those who,

though they have adopted an entirely

different object for their

science, still call themselves theologians

logians of

may

;

but by the theo-

churches and tendencies, who, in whatever

all

from each other, are still agreed in this, bent upon the knowledge of the living God, and that from God Himself alone this knowledge can come to Among all these, there is no difference of view concernus. ing this ultimate cause (principium remotum). It is different, on the other hand, when it is further investigated in what way this principium of God's self-

else

they

that theology

differ

is

revelation has operated or is

still

almost universal

still

that

operates.

our disposal in the Holy Scripture

The

confession

self-revelation

this ;

lies

at

but while one group

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