Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 335

Chap.

THE CONCEPTION OF THEOLOGY

I]

311

Hegel made the ectypal with his inner consciousness. of God to appear in the foreground of human Schleiermacher, on the other hand, started consciousness

knowledge

;

out from the pistic capacity increated in the inner nature Hence it is not surprising in the least, that both of man.

formed a school of their own, and that only by their tive

theology revived again as a science.

initia-

They indeed

which theology had fled. Each and theology to a proper place of honor in human life and in the world of thought. B}^ their work the " unheimisch " feeling of confusion in the face of reality was taken away from the theologian he had

abandoned the

isolation to

in his Avay restored religion

;

The

again a standing.

And

quenched.

earnest effort

it

that

was

thirst after reality could again be

even

orthodox theologians, whose

to maintain

by

far the greater part of

the content of special revelation, sought refuge in the two schools need not surprise us, for the reason that the strength of each lay not so

much

in their positive data, as in their

formal view, which to a certain extent was also adapted, if needs be, to cover an orthodox cargo. With respect to this

formal part, Schleiermacher and Hegel even supplemented each other. If in Schleiermacher's subjective school the-

ology was threatened to be sacrificed to religion, and inHegel's speculative tendency to be glorified as the sole it was evident that those who Avere minded foresaw the future of theology in the synthesis of both elements. There were two sides to natural theology, and only in the combination of Schleiermacher and Hegel could natural theology again obtain a hearing in

substance of religion,

more

its

seriousl}'

entirety.

But

this

whole

ended in nothing but

effort has

bitter dis-

Not, as already said, as though in these two began at once to cast the content of the special

appointment. schools

men

On

revelation overboard.

Hegel both did not

the contrary, Schleiermacher and

rest content

natural theology, but

made

it

with the meagre data of

a point of honor to

demand own

the exalted view-point of the Christian religion for its sake, and, so far as they were able, to vindicate

it.

What

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