Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 379

Chap.

THE OPERATION OF THIS PRINCIPIUM

II]

355

applying and expository operations of the Holy Spirit are withdrawn from the individual life and concentrated in that

which

We

is official.

pass

by the small

differences from each of these three

view which occur Theology. In this section

and Baptist was our only purpose, where the ultimate cause (principium remotum) is fixed, to distinguish the conceptions which had been formed of the manner in which the Divine energy, in revealing itself to sinners, had reached its result. This process has been represented

pomts

in Greek, Lutheran,

of

it

The

either as mystic-atomistic or as organic.

done by all

all fanatics,

the latter by

all

first

churches.

has been

But though

the churches have agreed in the organic interpretation of

Revelation, they have separated in this

:

namely, one group

has conceived inspiration not merely as organic, but temporal as well,

and consequently

thinks that inspiration

is

as completed

;

while

Rome

still

continuous in the organism of the

Church. § 69.

The Relation

betiveen

this

Principium and our Con-

sciousness

For the present, we leave the further study of the different conceptions that are formed of the working of tliis principium, in order to go back to the more weighty question of the connection between this principium and our consciousness a question the answer to which lies for

—

us in the qualification of

There

this

connection as immediate.

no third something, that guarantees to our consciousness the reality of this principium. The working of this principium upon our consciousness is direct. This is reall}^ self-evident, since every principium finds its peculiar is

character in this,

that

it

is

allows no ground under itself

itself

ground, and therefore

but in the case of the principium of theology ideas have been so confused, that a separate study of it cannot be omitted. For the sake of clearness we start from the ultimate cause, i.e. fro7n special inspiration. God from His oivn miiid breathes (inspirat) into the mind of man, more particularl}' into the mind of ;

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