Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 407

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Chap. 11]

TO JUDGE THE SPECIAL PRINCIPIUM?

man

therefore entirely vain, over against a

383

of thought,

who

hokls the natural principiura to be unimpaired, and who has not himself come under the overwhelming power of the special

Being as he is, he can do nothing else than disrevelation every right of existence; to move special your pute judgment you should not reason with him, different him to a principium.

in his consciousness

but chaligenirm

fruit of regeneration,

From

it

this, again, it

does not

lie

;

and since

this is the

with you, but with God.

does not follow that you

may now

accept everything that comes into your mind, and that thus

you may be unreasonable

ivith Tjourself.

Reformed Theology

has always antagonized this caprice, and in imitation of the

Anselm

with reference also to an investigation into He who, thanks to the inthe necessitas Sacrae Scripturae. shining of higher light, has perceived the darkening of the

Cur Deus liomo

?

of

it

has,

special revelation, first of all instituted

natural principium, and has given himself captive to the

on this account abandon his reason, but is bound to try to understand these two facts in their mutual relation and in relation to the reality in which This is both demanded and rendered he finds himself. possible by what we found in the last section concerning the relation of the special principium to our creaturely capacieven in the sense, that one is able to see for himself ties is able the reasonableness of his conviction and confession to prove this to those who start out from similar premises and can place them before the opponent in such a light that, with the assumption of our premises, he can accept our conspecial principium, cannot

;

;

clusions.

The argument may even then be continued concerning more particularly with reference whether our reason is in a condition of soundness or of darkening but suppose that the unsoundness or abnormality of our reason be granted on both sides, this would by no means compel the opponent to accept the From the coincidence special principium which we defend. of the facts, that one of your children is lost and that I have

those premises themselves, to the question,

;

found a

lost child, it does

not in the least follow, that the

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