Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 205

Chap.

Ill]

§ 51.

BOTH SCIENCES UNIVERSAL

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That they who study science under

the fact of palingenesis.

the influence of palingenesis, as well as they

who

leave

it

out of account, can only hold for true what rests on their own premises, and thus can appreciate each other's study

That with Christian, as well as with naturalistic science, that only stands scientifically sure which, going out from its own premises, each has obtained only in a formal manner.

as the result of scientific research.

both studies of science,

That consequently, in

all sorts of antitheses, tendencies,

and schools will reveal themselves, and that by alone science on both sides advances.

And

this process finally,

that

because the influence of the subjective element, occasioned

by a difference of disposition, manner of life, spiritual tendency, and age, makes itself felt with both, every investigator deems his own result of science true in the broadest sense thereby going out from the conviction that, ;

provided he carries on his investigation well, every normal investigator will attain a like result with himself. § 51.

The

Both Sciences Universal

proposition, that in virtue of the fact of palingenesis

a science develops itself by the side

which, though formally allied to

and therefore different in

its

it,

is

of the

naturalistic^

differently disposed,

conclusions, and stands over

must not be understood in a an absolutely universal sense. The difference between the two is not merely apparent in theological science, but in all the sciences, in so far as the fact of palingenesis governs the whole subject in all investigations, and hence also, the result of all these investigations as far as their data are not absolutely material. To support this proposition, however, two things must still be shown first, that in both cases science is taken in the sense of universal-human validity ; and, secondly, that palingenesis is not merely a subjective psychical, but a universal phenomenon, Avhich involves both the investigating subject and the cosmos. Inasmuch, however, as we are writing a theological encyclopedia, we do not proceed here to the exposition of this. against

it

as Christian science,

specifically theological, but in

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