Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 170

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KELIGION

§47.

reality of the

phenomena, and

[Div.

in the

n

axioms and laws of

In the spiritual sciences, Logic by which we demonstrate. on the other hand, this is different. In Psychology it is faith, and faith alone, which directly guarantees to me the presence of

my

my

soul, of

the data by which

I

ego,

and

of

my

sense of

self.

labor on psychical ground fall

All

away

immediately as soon as I consign faith to non-activity. And when I go out of myself, in order to communicate with other persons, in nine cases out of ten faith is the only means at command by which I can receive the revela-

and attach a value

tion of their personality lation.

Let

it

to that reve-

be emphatically repeated here, that only

mother revealed to me who my father was, and in almost every case this do that affects my whole existence all-important circumstance

because I

my

know

this as a fact

;

cannot be certified except by faith in the content of this This presents no difficulty as long as it con-

revelation.

cerns a content which touches

me

alone

;

as soon, however,

and tends to domains of morals, politics, economics, pedagogy, jurisprudence and philosophy, we see all sorts of groups of individuals separate into schools, and nothing more is said of unity and common certainty. as this content acquires a general character,

establish the laws of psychic

§ 47.

life,

in the

Religion

That which in the given sense is true of all science of the creaturely, and by which in the end everything depends upon faith, is from the nature of the case still more eminently true of all scientific research which concerns itself with the matter of religion. Taking the conception of "religion " provisionally, without any more precise definition, this much is certain, that all religion assumes communion with something that transcends the cosmos, this cosmos being taken objectively as well as subjectively.

no higher

flight

than Ethics,

it

Even when

religion takes

gropes about in that ethical

it might find there a central ethical power which governs this whole domain, and before which every As long as Ethics non-ethical phenomenon must vanish.

world-order that

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