Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 437

Inspiration.

§ 75.

we

If

INSPIRATION

413

Its Relation to the

Principium JEssendi

§ 75.

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liave not failed entirely in

our endeavor to appre-

hend the .special principium in its full significance, and if thereby we intend to maintain the confession of the theology of the sixteenth century, that the only principium of theol-

—

by what Holy Scripture, the question now arises, action the Holy Scripture came forth from this principium in such a way that at length the principium and the product of this principium (i.e. the Holy Scripture) could be inter-

ogy

is

the

Theologically taken, this action

changed.

and therefore

lies in inspiration,

we proceed to the study of this which we owe the Holy Scripture.

in this section

majestic act of God, to

enough for Encyclopedia to declare apodictically Such a that the Holy Bible is the principium of theology. It is not

declaration a science

is sufficient,

when one

whose principium

is

writes an Encyclopedia of

self-evident.

A

medical Ency-

clopedia does not need to give an account in the

first

of the fact that pathological conditions appear in the

place

human

body, nor of the fact that in nature there are reagents against But for theological Encyclopedia the matthese conditions. ter stands differently. object,

It

whose principium

has to investigate a matter as its not given normally in the crea-

is

but has abnormally entered into what was created. Tlie right understanding, therefore, of this science demands an explanation of this principium, its action and its product, This principium is the energy in their mutual connection.

tion,

God by which, notwithstanding the ruin worked in the cosmos by sin. He carries out His will with reference to that cosmos and more properly as a principium of knowledge it is that energy in God, by which He introduces His theodicy The product of into the human consciousness of the sinner.

in

;

which is placed objectively before the human And finally the action consciousness, is the Holy Scripture. from this Divine energy forth by which this product comes Hence this inspiration also must be explained. is inspiration. It should, however, not be lost from view, that this inspiHe who ration is no isolated fact, which stands by itself. this principium,

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