Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 661

CHAPTER V HISTORY OF THEOLOGY § 100.

The

Introduction

historic review of Theology,

which

closes this

volume,

cannot undertake to furnish a detailed narrative of the process run by theology in all its ramifications during these This process forms, not the subject of eighteen centuries. an encyclopedic, but of a proper historical investigation, which directs itself to a single department, or to a single period, or finally, to

theology as a whole (as with

Von

Zezschwitz, in

his Ent^vickelungsgang der Theologle als Wissenschqft, Lpz.,

In Encyclopedia, on the other hand, only the result of these investigations can be taken up and put into connection with the encyclopedic course of thought. For the writer, 1867).

especially, there

the

is

less occasion

to enter

upon

reason that the history of Theological

which runs so largely

details, for

Encyclopedia,

parallel with that of Theology, has

elsewhere been treated by him more broadly than has heretofore been done,

and too much

detail in this chapter

only lead to needless repetition.

would

The question whether

this

review should not have been placed before the chapter on the conception of tlieology is here answered in the negaIt is entirely true that the forming of the conception tive.

presumes the knowledge of theology as a hisphenomenon, but the historic knowledge in that sense may be presumed as universall}^ known, and Encyclopedia

of theology toric

can accomplish

its

task of pointing out the right

historic process, only

According

to

when

it

is

ready with

its

way

in this

conception.

the logical course of thought, the history of

theology would really have to appear twice.

First, a his-

tory of the facts should be furnished which should include as fact everything that announced itself as a theological 637

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