Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 312

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§ 60.

edge of

God

subject,

i.e.

it

was If

ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

[Div. Ill

humanity was first in its general and (2) that in this general subject

of restored

in Christ;

perfect.

this

beginning of the logical action by which

the

is

regenerated humanity turns into knowledge the content of revelation received by faith,

it is at

does not end the logical action.

once evident that this

is still wantby which he conies to a personal knowledge of God and, in the second place, the central and complete knowledge of God, which the whole body of Christ possesses in Him who has been given it of God for wisdom, must be radiated from all the combining articulations of regenerated humanity, and must become "understanding" in its dialectical conscious-

ing the

logical

action

First, there

the

of

individual, ;

ness.

With

reference to the

first it is

or instrument for this logical

regain the power which are not deprived

by sin

our law of thought

is

it

necessary that the organ

action in the sinner shall

has lost by sin.

of the

power

Although we and though

of thought,

not broken, the pivot of our thought

has become displaced, and thereby our activity of thought,

applied to divine things,

has a Avrong

effect.

This

is

which does not imply that enlightened is to think more

restored by divine illumination,

he

who

has

thus

been

Greater or lesser acuteness of thought depends

acutely.

upon personal conditions which are entirely different. Paul is a more acute thinker than James, and in acuteness of thought Aristotle and Kant excel by far the majority of Christians. If I put a sharp knife in a mowing-machine, but place

it

too high, so that

action of the machine

is

it

cannot touch the grass,

in vain;

all

and with a duller knife,

grass, I will produce ten times as much such is the case here. As long as the divine illumination remains wanting, the logical instrument in the It does not touch sinner is out of relation to divine things. The instrument them, and therefore its action is in vain.

which touches the effect.

And

of the

logical

action

is

not repaired mechanically; this which is only

postulates the palingenesis of our person,

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