Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 142

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TRUTH

§ 44.

[Div. II

representations of the object, both of which have been ob-

tained as the result of very serious scientific study. If the objection be raised that science has cleared

whole

series of

fallacious

representations,

we

away

repeat that

which the lie for a time lay concealed, but that that same lie, and therefore the same antithesis against truth, is bound to raise its head in new forms with indestructible power. All sorts of views, which for centuries have been considered dead, are seen to rise this concerned the forms only in

again resuscitated in our age. As far as principle is concerned and the hidden impulse of these antitheses, there is

and he who knows history and men, sees the representatives of long-antiquated world-views walk our streets to-day, and hears them lecture from the The older and newer philosophers, the older and platform. newer heresies, are as like each other, if you will pardon the homely allusion, as two drops of water. To believe that an nothing new under the sun

;

absolute science in the above-given sense can ever decide

the question between truth and falsehood science as as

it

it

proceeds

appears to him, and therefore

scientific

is

nothing but a always takes

He who affirms this, from his own subjective

criminal self-deception.

premises and

eo ipso stigmatizes

every

development which goes out from other premises lie. The antithesis of among Theism, Pantheism, and Atheism domi-

as pseudo-science, serviceable to the

principles

nates

all

the spiritual sciences in their higher parts, and as

soon as the students of these sciences come to defend what is

,

is false, their struggle and its governed by their subjective starting-

true and combat what

result are entirely

point.

In connection with the fact of sin, from which the wliole between truth and falsehood is born, this phenome-

antithesis

non presents itself in such a form that one recognizes the fact of sin, and that the other denies it or does not reckon with it. Thus what is normal to one is absolutely abnormal This establishes for each an entirely different And where both go to work from such subjective standard. standards, the science of each must become entirely different, to the other.

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