Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 300

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§ 60.

ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

modification suffered by

tlie

[D:y. Ill

original revelation on account of

and put the queswhat condition the three factors of the knowledge revelation, faith and the logical action of the of God would exhibit themselves under this conhuman mind

sin,

we must go back

tion, in

to this hypothesis

—

—

stellation.

man and interpreted as the God in man's hidden being,

Revelation, taken as limited to

inworking and

manifestation of

does not cease with sin; nothing can annihilate the omnipresence of God, not even sin; nor can man's dependence as

image upon the archetype be destroyed, neither can the mysand the finite in the human soul be abolished. Thus revelation is continued in the heart of man. That which in his hellish terror drove Judas to despair and suicide, was but the perception of this fearful manifestation tical contact of the infinite

Only this revewhich was originally S3mipathetic, turns into its It becomes the revelaopposite and becomes antipathetic. wrath and punishes the His tion of a God who sends out Even in hell the sinner continues to carry in himsinner. Because as self this inworking of God's omnipresence. sinner also he remains forever man and must remain such, "If I make my he can never escape from that revelation. of

God

in the deepest centre of his person.

lation,

bed in

is

rid himself of

art there."

true of the second factor, iriara.

human

belongs to

it

;

unfaith (aTnaria)

want

Thou

hell, behold.

The same

Faith also

nature, consequently the sinner can never it ;

also turns into its opposite and becomes which must not be understood as a mere

or defect of faith, but always as an active deprivation

The energy which by nature operates in faith remains the same, but turns itself away from God and with all the passion at its command attaches itself to (actuosa privatio).

This is accounted for by the fact that reveno longer reach its highest point in the sinner, So viz. the personal manifestation of God to the sinner. that it is limited to the internal operations of God in His anger, and thus to perceptions in the subject of an awful something

else.

lation can

power that

terrifies

him.

This perception can

affect faith in

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