Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 637

IN

Chap. IV]

which

to attain to

appears

all

THE ORGANISM OF SCIENCE

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knowledge, or included under Logic.

This

too painfully, indeed, from the serious effort of

naturalism to apply

its

method

doubt, this conflict

is

least of all a conflict

to the spiritual sciences.

ogy and philosophy, but one born from the sitions of the thinker.

No

between theoldiffering dispo-

If his ideal life is high,

he cannot reach the same conclusions as another person, whose mind

and tendency confine themselves entirely to the things seen In the same way, if by regeneration thinking man (opara). stands in vital communion with the kingdom of God, he must see differently, and consequently judge differently, from the one who stands outside of it. The same applies to psychology and ethics. A Christian philosopher knows his own soul Q^^Xn) ^nd views the ethical life differently from the philosopher

who

stands outside of regeneration.

The

antithesis,

therefore, does not consist in the fact that theology offers a

Christian ethics and philosophy a neutral one.

The

Christian

philosopher cannot do otherwise than live Christian ethics,

and what theology gives is not a Christian, but a theological etiiies, which will be more fully explained in the discussion of the separate departments.

The real conflict, however, between theology and philosophy begins, when philosophy is taken in the narrower sense, as the science that investigates the principles of being, and in

virtue of these principles seeks to furnish, from all the

results of

the other sciences, a concentric-organic

world- view.

Then we should be on our guard,

lest

life-

and

theology

degenerate into philosophy, and philosophy capture for itself This has already happened which the place of theology. ;

from the circumstance, that philosophers have not reckoned with regeneration, and part for the most that theologians frequently have deemed themselves able to From the first it followed, get along without philosophy. that besides a psychology, an ethics, an aesthetics and a logic, philosophers also tried to furnish a doctrine of Crod, and from tlie imperfectly interpreted data of the inborn and the acquired knowledge of God, sought to construct a theology, independently of the revealed knowledge of God. Thus they fact explains itself

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