Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 196

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TWO KINDS OF SCIENCE

§ 49.

That

of his being.

[Div. II

this assimilation does not take place

by

no objection, since it has been shown that naturalistic science also can make no advances without faith. Moreover, naturalistic science, as well as that of palingenesis, has its bounds, beyond which it cannot go; its antinomies, which it cannot reconcile; and its mysteries, after which the interrogation point remains standIf now knowledge is brought us by Eevelation from ing.

means

of the understanding only, can raise

across the boundaries, a reconciliation

antinomies, and

many

a

new mystery

offered for

is

is

unveiled,

it

many pleads

in no respect against the scientific character of our science,

that our reason to place

it

unable to analyze this

is

in organic connection

new

with the

material and It is not

rest.

strange, therefore, that with reference to this Revelation,

faith unfolds a broader activit}^ than in the investigation of the cosmos,

and harmonizes entirely with the aim and

character of this Revelation

viz. to be of service first to even of the simplest-minded But rather than protest people, and after that to science. ought recognize the fact that she is to against this, science called, (1) to investigate the nature and essence of this Revelation; (2) to analj^ze the material, which has been derived

the practical

from

it

;

religious

and (3)

:

life,

to discover

and indicate

tlie

way

in

which

this material, as well as Revelation itself, enters into relation

man. The lack of unanimity on and that in all ages these three points, and everything connected Avitli them, have been so

Avith the psychical life of

any

of these three points,

differently judged,

is

readily explained.

The tendencies

of

mj^sticism and pietism, of realism and spiritualism, of trans-

cendentalism and immanence, of monism and dualism, of the organic and individualism have ever intruded themselves

and have crossed again those blended which are known by the name of Romanism, Lutheranism and Calvinism. Tendencies and types these, in which

into these questions, types,

shortsightedness beholds merely ecclesiastical variegations,

but which to the

man

across the entire

domain

And

of broader view, of

human

life,

extend themselves science included.

tliougli the science of the palingenesis

may

succeed as

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