Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 323

Chap.

cut

THEOLOGY AS SCIENCE

I]

from the common root of

off

explained when

we

299

can only be organism of Theolog}-.

all science,

consider the

domain palingenesis revivifies "a creature of God," and for no single moment abandons what was given in the nature of man. Sin Here we

affirm that in every

the original

turn

to

tries

man

as

the

excellencies

of

this

nature

into their

by and where particular grace renders this restraint potentially complete, and at the same time potentially recovers original purity, from the nature of the case opposites, but this fatal effect of sin has been restrained

common

grace;

the action of the Spirit in the sphere of palingenesis remains identical with the action of the Logos in joins itself to the

common

grace,

human

nature,

which has called

all

and

science

into being, at every point of investigation.

The

science of

specialization of is

not

all

of ectypic

therefore, is nothing but a given in the idea of Theology. It

Theology,

what

is

may

Theology, neither

knowledge

of

God

all

subjective assimilation

be appropriated by

it.

Among

knowledge of God, Theoloccupies a place of its own, which is defined

the different assimilations of this

ogy

as a science

b}- its

And

nature as an organic

thus

we come

member

in the unit of sciences.

to this conception of Theology, viz. that it

which has the revealed knowledge of God as investigation, and raises it to " understanding." Or in broader terms, the science of Theology is that logical action of the general subject of regenerated humanity by which, in the light of the Holy Spirit, it takes up the revealed knowledge of God into its consciousness and from thence reflects it. If, on the other hand, the science of Theis

that science

the object of

ology

is

its

not taken in

Theology

is

its

active sense, but as a product, then

the scientific insight of the regenerated

human

consciousness into the revealed knowledge of God.

This conception diverges entirely from what the several schools at present understand by Theology as a science

;

and

compels us, in defence of our definition, to investigate the several degenerations of Theology as knowledge of God, and then the several falsifications of the conception

this

first

of

Theology

as science.

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