Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 628

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§ 04.

THEOLOGY AN INDEPENDENT ORGAN

[Div. Ill

the Zuyder Zee

is indeed a particular region of land, but should not for this reason be coordinated with the Dutch Nothing arbitrary therefore can be tolerated provinces.

it

in the distribution of the organism of science.

There must

be a principium of division, and only those parts of the organism are independent which by virtue of this principium are governed immediately by this general,

and not by a lower,

principium of division. Pathology cannot be an independent science, because it is not formed immediately by the principium of division of science, but is governed by the general conception of the medical science.

As of

a psychological-historical

many

And

phenomenon,

psychological phenomena.

the most important, but

this is the case here.

it is

religion

It is

is

always one of many.

genus, but a species under a genus.

but one

granted that

Hence the

it is

It is

no

science of

It religion can never claim for itself an independent place. belongs to the philological faculty, and in this faculty it occurs as a subordinated science, partly under psychology,

partly under ethnology, and partly under philosophy.

becomes a different matter when, passing b}^ the we speak of Theology in the sense indicated above. Then we deal with a science which has a single common object (objectum univocum), arises from a single common principle (principium univocum), and develops This cannot be subordiitself after a method of its own. nated, either under the natural, juridical, philological, or medical sciences, hence it nnist be coordinated. In scientific

But

it

" Science of Religion,"

research

human

consciousness pursues the five principally

differentiated parts of

its

total object.

It directs itself to

man^ to nature about man, and to G-od as man's creator, prewhile with man, as far as he himself is server, and end concerned, logical distinction must be made between his These are the psychic, somatic and his social existence. immediately from the spring which five primordial lines human consciousness principium of division, i.e. from the in relation to its total object and this agrees entirely with the division of the faculties, which is the outcome of the increated law of life itself and of its practical needs. And ;

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