Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 427

Chap.

AND THE HOLY SCRIPTURE

II]

403

and for the individuals among these nations, the rule remains valid that the substance of the knowledge of God, which comes to us from the special principium, is identical with the Holy Scripture. This would not be so if the Holy Scripture were merely a collection of inspired utterances concerning the Being of God, His attributes, His will and counsel of grace. Then, indeed, by the side of

the realm

of

Scripture there

the

would also lie the realm of facts, both of the leadings of the Lord and of His miracles, and the knowledge of these facts But this is not the could only come to us by tradition. is to be deplored and it Scripture Holy the character of has degraded particular in tendency that the Methodistic ;

volume of inspired utterances. The Holy Scripture offers us a photograph of the entire sphere of life, in which the action of God from the special principium has appeared, with His activity out of the natural principium as its natural and indispensable background. The logical revelation, which directs itself immediately to our consciousness, does not stand independently by the side of this photograph, neither is it woven through it, but belongs it

so

much

to such a

and constitutes a part of it. More than or anything else than this photograph could not be offered us, simply because to

it,

facts

that

lie

in

the past cannot be alive except in the

For though there is also or in the imagination. a real after-effect of past events in the actual conditions in which we live, which is, moreover, the no less real activity

memory

which uninterruptedly goes forth from Christ out of heaven upon His Church, yet the presentation of this double, real activity and correct insight into it is possible only by a thorough study of the photograph offered us in the Holy Not as though we would deny that the rich Scripture. past, which lies back of the completion of the Holy Scriptures, does contain an innumerable multitude of facts which you do not find in this photograph, but for this the answer from John xx. 30

is

ever conclusive

:

that

many

other signs

therefore did Jesus, but these are written, that ye lieve that Jesus is the

Christ, the

Son

of

may

God; and

be-

that

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