Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 439

,

Chap.

TO THE PRINCIPIUM ESSENDI

II]

415

one continuous miracle, which shows renewal of the life of man by regeneration, in the radical renewal of the life of humanity by the the Divine energy

is

itself in the radical

new Head which

it

receives

in

Christ,

and which

finally

shall bring to pass a similar radical renewal of life in nature.

And

because these three do not run loosely side by side, but together organically, so that the mystery of regenerbound are ation, incarnation and of the final restitution forms one whole, this wondrous energy of re-creation exhibits itself in a broad liistory, in which what used to be interpreted as incidental miracles, could not be wanting.

Because our soul

is

organically connected with our hody^ and this body unites us organically to nature, a palingenesis, which should limit itself

same time working an upon the body and upon the cosmos, is simply unthink-

to the psychic domain, without at the effect

able.

The

fuller explanation of this belongs

of the case to dogmatics.

Here

it is

from the nature

sufficient that the atten-

is directed to the significance, which the recreative Divine energy, also in so far as it appears as the principium of being (essendi), has for the life of our consciousness, and thereThe tie fore for the principium of knowing (cognoscendi). that binds thought to being and being to thought operates also here. There is not a revelation by the dictation of a doctrine and law, and by its side a revelation by what is called miracle but the revelation in the world of reality and The the revelation in the world of thought are interwoven. thought explains the reality (as, for instance, prophecy the Messiah), and again from the reality the thought receives its

tion

;

content (for instance, in the gospels). the

The preparation

of

consciousness for the thought (illuminatio) proceeds

from the reality

of the palingenesis,

and again

act of the consciousness) the reality of the

in faith (as the

new

life finds its

In a like sense inspiration doesj3^_tJj^_isplated_

utterance.

by the side

Divine energy and forms a part of

of the

in history, but is organically

If in the meantime it is demanded, that theology as science indicate its principium, it has to deal from the nature of the case as such with the principium of Jcnoiving only, and cannot reckon with the

united to

it

it.

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