Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 238

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§ 54.

IS

THERE A PLACE FOR THEOLOGY

finding no echo in

the Reformed it

assumes

Even

if

TTvevfi.a')

we

tlie

universal

human

sense.

[Div. II

With

all

reject the Trichotomy, at least in so far as

three substances in

man.

We

are Dichotomists.

the distinction between soul and spirit (^^jrvxv and were able to maintain itself to a certain extent,

body, soul, and spirit could never be coordinated. But the antithesis should be between hoili/ and soul, and within that soul the distinction between the psychical and the

Even they who speak

pneumatical should be sought.

of a

faculty of the Science of Religion are well aware that nothing can be done with the pneuma as such, wherefore they have

thrown themselves upon religion, as being a very compliThe cated expression of life and rich in phenomenal life. pneumatical per se would not be capable of investigation to any considerable extent. Hence along this way there is no possibility of pointing out a proper ground in the object of general science for a science of Theology, and there can be no question of a Theological faculty. Both are possible only when you come to the antithesis of self-conscious man and Jus God, so that you find the object of your faculty 7iot in religion, but in God.

But even because

it

this

by

itself will

will not

answer

to

not

suffice.

coordinate

Not so much God with the

For incorporeal, with the soul, the body politic, or fiature. the distinction could well be made between the creator and creation,

between 77ian and nature, and in and soid. This would be no logical

in the creation

man between But the difficulty is, that in science, as taken in error. this chapter, man is the thinking subject, and not God; his body

such must stand above the object of science, and must be able to investigate it, and And this he is well to grasp it with his understanding. able to do with nature, with our body, soul, and body politic, but not with God, taken as an object of our human science.

tliat

this thinking subject as

Thinking man, taken

as subject over against

God

as object, is

remains an incontestable truth (1 Cor. ii. 11) that "the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God." Man himself would stand before a logical contradiction in terms.

It

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