Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 655

THEOLOGY

Chap. IV]

stands

and always

first

IN ITS

PARTS

In the investigation into the

will.

Ohurch the historiological activity of the mind

With Dogma^

exercised.

human mind

is

a

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is

most fully

a systematizing function of the

first requisite.

And

with the Diaconia you

enter upon the practical domain, and an insight is required If meanwhile it is the organic plan of the into technique.

which successively calls into action these several funchuman mind, the real dividing virtue does not go out from your subject, but from the object; hence the division must be taken so as to correspond to the elements of object

tions of the

The

the object.

subjective division corresponds to this, but

Moreover, the correspondence All labor bestowed upon the Bible as such is only partial. The historic-critical study of is by no means exegetical. Neither is the several books as such is not exegetical.

must not be put

in its place.

While, on the other hand, it is by no means

archaeology exegetical, etc.

must be remarked that confined to the

first

all

exegetical labor

group.

The

exegetical function of

equally engaged in the investigation of Symbolics, of the Fathers, and in consultation with the sources From this subjective point of view it of Church history.

our mind

is

was entirely logical on the part of Professor Doedes of Utrecht when he classified Symbolics under this first group. With the more precise analysis of the subdivisions of each group, as given in another volume, it will appear that the objective division leads in more than one particular to a

These, hownow, since this would occasion a Here we simply inquire after the four needless repetition. principal branches as they appear upon the tree of theology, and we think that we have indicated them in the Bibliological, Ecclesiological, Dogmatological and Diaconiological groups just by tJiese names and in this order. The symmetry of these designations is justified by the fact that it is the human logos each time which seeks an enmodified division of the special departments. ever, will not detain us

;

trance into each of the four elements of the object. With each of the four groups it is ever the action of our logos

which makes the knowledge

of the object to appear

from the

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