Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 441

Chap.

TO THE PKINCIPIUM ESSEXDI

II]

417

communion, inspiration, in the narrower sense, may never be Inspiration, as it here confounded with this communion. appears, is not the working of the general " consciousness of It does not rise from the divinity"' (Gottesbewusstsein). It may not be confounded with the the seed of reliyion. Neither may it utterance of the mystically disposed mind. be placed on a line of equality with the way in which God will reveal Himself to the blessed in the realm of glory.

Appearing it

as

an abnormal factor in the work of re-creation,^^

bears a specific character, belongs to the category of the

miraculous, and

is

1/

As

consequently of a transient nature.

soon as the object for which

it appears has been attained, it and ceases to exist. Though it must be granted that the illumination, and very much more, was indispensable, in order that the fruit of inspiration might ripen to the full yea, though from everything it appears that the Holy Spirit ever continues to this day more fully to ex-

loses its reason for being,

'

;

plain the rich content of the fruit of inspiration in the confession of believers

and

in the

development of theology

;

yet

in principle all these operations of the Spirit are to be dis-

tinguished from inspiration in sel of

God

its

proper sense.

In the coun-

before the creation of the world, there was a

provision for the carrying out of His plan concerning the

In that counsel of cosmos, in spite of the outbreak of sin. God, all things were predestined in organic relation, which

end were to be done by the Divine energy, and this, on the one hand, what was to be done centrally in and for our entire race, and, on the other hand, what was to be done in order that this central means might

to this

indeed, severally

realize its

:

purpose with the individual

directs itself to this central

means

elect.

Inspiration

the individual

;

is left

to

This central means is to be taken in this lijrst, as an idea in Divine completeness^ lyi"§^ threefold way predestined in the counsel of God secondly, as from that counsel it entered into the reality of this cosmos and was ever more fully executed and thirdly, as it was offered to the human consciousness, as tradition under the Divine illumination.

:

;

;

guarantee, and by inspiration as the

human

idea.

,

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