Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 116

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§ 42.

the power of

THE SPIRITUAL SCIENCES

German thought, demand

[Div.

II

has ever led the van, and vigor-

ously maintained the

that science should lead to an

organic knowledge of the entire cosmos, derived from one

Unfortunately, however, this theory, which with development would have been entirely correct, still correct in an ideal sense, no longer meets

principle.

u

sinless

and

is

the actual state of things, partly because the investigating subjects stand inharmoniously opposed to one another,

partly because

all sorts of

and

anomalies have gained an entrance

Only think of human language and of the been waged abont analogies and anomalies If, from since the days of the Soi^hists and Alexandrians into the object.

conflict that has

!

this point of view, the disturbance of the

harmony

in the

subject as well as in the object fails to be taken into account, and the effort

discord from one

is

persisted in logically to explain the

principle, one ends in speculation

which

does not impart an understanding imagines a cosmos which does not exist, or pantheistically destroys every boundary line, till finally the very difference

of the cosmos, but either

betw^een good and evil

is

made

to disappear.

Truly the entire interpretation of science, applied to the cosmos as it presents itself to us now, and is studied by the subject " man " as he now exists, is in an absolute sense governed by the question whether or no a disturbance has been brought about by sin either in the object or in the subject of science.

This all-determining point will therefore claim our attention in a special section, after the character of the spiritual sciences shall have been separately examined. § 42.

If the

cosmos,

man

Tlie jSpiritual /Sciences

included, consisted exclusively of pon-

the cosmos would be much now, but there would be no subject to Hence science has no right to appropriate this knowledge. complain that the cosmos does not consist of mere matter. MeanIt is to this very fact that science owes its existence. difficulty of obtaining a the while we cannot overestimate derable

things, the study of

simpler than

it

is

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