Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 309

Chap.

sense

is

ity, in

of

THE FRUIT OF REVELATION

I]

Christ

tlie

285

thinking subject of our restored humanconsciousness "the manifold wisdom

whose common

God "

is

to reflect itself.

The Church

confesses this

b}^

honoring him as projjhet^ and Paul expresses it by saying Even that Christ is first given us as wisdom (1 Cor. i. 30). though it is the Holy Spirit who executes the logical action, it is

Christ himself

who

said

:

"

He

shall receive of mine,

unto you." He is not only the light and And Christ the life and the way, but He is also the truth. can be this, because he is himself the Logos, as the Evangelist emphasizes so strongly, and because the logos in man exhibits the image of this Logos of God. If now there were no causal relation between these two, Christ would be

and

show

shall

it

Since, howinconceivable as subject of the new humanity. counterpart of ever, our logos is reflectively (abbildlich) the

the divine Logos, and since this Logos

is

in consequence,

also independently of sin, "the Light of the world," thus

supporting and animating the logical existence of man, it is in every way conceivable that this Logos should approach individual

self

man from

without, for the sake of executing for

which he himin the indoctrination thus by and disabled, become had

him and

in his stead the logical action, for

bring him back again to that logical action. This was implied in the saying of the older theologians, that the Logos had revealed himself to us in a twofold way, literal sense to

by incarnation., and in the world by what, for brevity's sake, we will call inscripturatio7i, without emphasizing for the present the There was a revelation of the Logos, they scriptural part. said, in the flesh, and a revelation of the Logos in the ivord, And because both or, if you please, in being and thought. the one Logos, they revelations of were revelations these together formed one him, and in united were organically but a physical were nothing If the incarnation whole. viz. in the reality of being

of our consciousness

without a logical content, this fact could not be taken up into our consciousness as far as its content is conAnd, on the other hand, if the revelation b^/ the cerned. word had no background in reality, and no central motive

fact,

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