Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 588

CHAPTER

III

THE METHOD OF THEOLOGY § 87.

What

is

The legend

demanded by

is still

its

Principium

current that the Reformers intended to

Holy Scripture

represent the

Wature of

the

certain articles were set

as a sort of a code, in

down

which

ready form, some as things

in

and some as rules for practice (credenda and According to this representation the Holy Scripture consists of four parts (1) a notarially prepared ofiftcial report of certain facts (2) an exposition of certain doctrines drawn up by way of articles (3) an instituted law in the form of rules; and (4) an official program of things to come. Over against this legend stands the fact that the content and the character of the Holy Scripture correspond in no particular to this representation, and that psychologically it will not do to attribute such a view of the Holy Scripture to any theologian worthy the name. This legend, however, is not the product of pure invention. The way in which Scholastics used to demonstrate from the Holy Scripture consisted almost

to be believed,

agenda).

:

;

;

exclusively of citations of this or that Bible text.

did the Reformers abandon this method entirely

;

Neither

they made

but no one of them employed this method exScripture with Scripture. They looked for an analogy of faith. They were thus led to enter more deeply into the organic life of the Scripture. And he

free use of

clusively.

who

it

;

They compared

gives Voetius' treatise quousque sese extetidat

auctoritas ? (Select. Disp.,

Tom.

I,

only, perceives at once that the view-point held

logians of that day

was very

just.

)S.

Scripturae

p. 29) even a hasty perusal

The

by the theo-

narrator of this legend

so far correct, however, that in the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, under the influences of pietism is

and methodism,

this unscientific 564

method became ever more

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