Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 652

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§ 99.

THE ORGANISM OF

[Div. Ill

ologiae), taken as an organic subdivision of the organism of

science

;

Taken

and

this alone

we

are to consider.

in this sense, there is

no essential difference of opin-

ion concerning the division of the theological departments. is held, almost universally, that a first group centres itself about the Holy Scripture, a second group has Church history for its centre, a third group has Christian doctrine

It

and Homiletics, together with what belongs This fourth group may be to it, forms the fourth group. called one thing by some, another by others some may differ for its object,

;

concerning the order to be observed the classification of certain departments belonging to each of these four groups may vary but this does not cancel the fact that a certain com;

;

mon

opinion indicates ever more definitely these four groups, proceeding of themselves from the organic disposition of The only divergence from this of any importance theology. that presents itself is, that a division into three groups as

still

appeals to a few, which end

is

reached by uniting with

Francke the so-called practical theology with systematic, or with the dogmatic, or like Kienlen But this the exegetical with the historical departments. difference need not detain us, since it merely involves a queslike Bertholdt the historic

tion of coordination or subordination.

They who

follow the

division of three always accept a division of one of the three

into

two

parts, so that actually they also

existence of four groups.

In

itself it

acknowledge the

cannot well be denied

Holy Scripture, the Church, Christian doctrine, and in the functions of office, four separate objects are given, which compel a division into four principal groups. And the

that in the

reduction of these four into three groups

when, with Gottschick and

is

serious only

group is For then the independence, and

others, the Bibliological

denied a place of its own from principium of theology is assailed in theology itself undermined.

principle. its

But by itself the assumption that there are four organic groups in the body of Divinity (corpus theologiae) is not enough. To be scientifically established, these four groups must of necessity proceed from a common principium of divi-

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