Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 292

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ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

§ 60.

ance of

soul

tlie

lie

[Div. Ill

knmvs his God personally

not yet

;

"witli

the full vision, but with something already of the seeing of face to face lost full

of

by

sin,

and only to be perfected in the

unfolding of our nature.

God

Thus there

a revelation

is

about us and within us, and the latter culminates in

the personal knowledge of the living God, as a God who dwells among and associates with us, and allows us to associate with

Him.

He who

this separates Revelation

understands

from

religion,

it

differently

and degrades

it

from to an

communication of certain facts or statutes. must not be abandoned that religion germinates only when it attains unto that which is written of Enoch, Neither knowledge nor pious viz. that he tvalked with God. Only| feeling by themselves can ever be called religion. other and have met each associate and you when your God and walk together, does religion live in your heart. But even this does not fully construe the conception of The distinction between the seed of reinnate theology/. ligion and faith, both of which are increated in our human nature, explains how from the side of God a revelation takes place in us, and how our ego is disposed to observe this revelation in us, but this by itself does not give us any Even though revelatheology yet, i.e. knowledge of God. tion in us on the one hand, and the working of our faith on the other hand, have so far advanced that at length we have perceived God in us and consequently knoiv God, we have I as yet no knowledge of God, and hence no theology.

intellectualistic

For the

fact

I

may know

a

number

of persons in the

world

whom

I

have

met, whose existence has been discovered to me, and of

whom I have received general impressions, while yet I have no knowledge of them. That I may have knowledge of him whom I have met, the logical action must first take place. When I have met some one and thus know him, I inquire about him, or seek an interview with him, that And such is the I may obtain knowledge of his person. and Though God works manifests Himself in case here. our being, and though I have the power of faith to perceive this inworking and this manifestation, this produces

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