Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 304

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ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

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under common grace palingenesis is still possible, while it has become an entire impossibility in the angel absolutely fallen and will be impossible in man when he shall have become absolutely satanic. This refutes the representation that the sinner is a "stock or block," and what we maintain is but the antithesis of the Reformed against the Lutheran representation, in which it was objected to on our part, that every point of connection for grace was wanting in the Re-creation

sinner.

may

never be interpreted as an abso-

lute creation.

With sity

reference

must occur

now

in the

to the modifications which of necesfundamental type of revelation, it is

evident that these must take place in each of the three

which lead

knowledge of God. no longer appear to the of man, spiritual vision after it had been darkened by sin, that self-manifestation had to be transferred from the mystery of soul-life to the outer world, with the incarnation as its central point, which is by no means the necessary complement of the normal human development, but was demanded only and alone by sin. From this it follows of itself that the method of revelation became inverted. If it began originally in the mj-stical nature of the individual, that so it might grow into a common revelation to our race, this was no longer possible after the fall. All knowledge, which as a connected whole directs itself from the external to the internal, is bound to the method of first establishing itself in the common consciousness, and from this only can factors

Since

God

to the

in revelation could

Andi formally by these two data that special Revelation is entirely governed; while its material modification could consist in nothing else than that God should no longer reveal Himself to the sinner antipatheticall}' in His anger, but sympathetically, i.e. in His pitying grace. So much for revelation itself. On the other hand, the modification effected in the second factor bears an faith it

enter the consciousness of the individuals.

it is

—

entirely different character.

The

faith life of the sinner

is

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