Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 307

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Chap.

THE FRUIT OF REA'ELATION

I]

And

own.

relation to

as individuals partalie of this

humanity

283

human

life

only in

as a whole, so also in relation to this

whole alone is Revelation of any significance to individual man. By this we do not deny the soteriological aim of special Revelation, but merely assert that salvation of the Its standard is and will be individual soul is not its rule. Surely whosoever betheological its first aim is theodicjj. lieves on Christ shall be saved; this is possible first and only because God has sent His Son; but the aim, and therefore ;

also end, of all this

is,

to

make

us see

how God

has loved

His world, and that therefore the creation of this cosmos, even in the face of sin, has been no failure. Hence Revelation taken as a whole aims at three things (1) the actual triumph over sin, guilt and death, a triumph which for the sake of Theology could not be limited to God's plan or counsel, but was bound to go out into the cosmical reality (2) the clear reflection of the manifold wisdom of God in the logical consciousness of man; and (3) such a dioramic procedure, that at every given moment of its career it offers all that is necessary for the salvation of the contemporaneous generation and of all persons in that generation. Passing by the first and the third for a moment, we consider the second alone as touching directly upon the logical action. The realization of the triumph over sin, guilt and :

—

death belongs in revelation to life itself the salvation of individuals does not depend in principle upon the logical ,

action, but

upon the

logical

action,

point

what we

of

is

the

wisdom The

humanity. person,

wdiich

rectification of is

the

point

and with the hand, the main

faith;

in

second place, the reflection the logical consciousness of

called, in the

of

God

in

subject of this action

but the general

Ego

of

is

not the individual

believing humanity

—

a.

limitation in which the additional term of "believino-" is

no contradiction, if only it is understood how wrong it is to suppose that the real stem of humanity shall be lost, and that merely an aggregate of elect individuals shall be saved. On the contrary, it should be confessed that in hell there is only an aggregate of lost individuals, who were cut off from

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