Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 237

IN

Chap. V]

side of man).

THE ORGANISM OF SCIENCE?

And

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this analysis of the entire

organism into

among

the parts, at

five parts causes the

organic relation

least in the case of the four faculties already outlined, to

be clearly discerned, as well in the object itself as in the reflection of it in the subject,

and develops the subdivisions

organically in each of the four parts.

Nothing is gained, on the other hand, by the notion that Theology has religious feeling, subjective religion, the phenomena of piety, etc., for its object, and that for this reason it is not to be taken as Theology, but as the Science of Religion. It is impossible in an organic sense to coordinate man's psychical existence, man's somatical existence, man as subdivision of humanity, and nature outside of man, and then, as a fifth wheel to the wagon, man's religious feeling. For this religious feeling belongs to man's psychic existence, and the study of it as such tends to investigate the object man. Hence the religious feeling cannot be an independent part in the object to be investigated, distinguished

from the other coordinated parts by an essential difference. This religious feeling is ver}^ important, and it is certainly right to investigate

and

of

this

humanity; but

his ethical, sesthetical,

phenomenon

in the

this religious life

and intellectual

longs to his psychical existence.

is

life of

man

coordinate with

life and hence beIn this way these studies ;

come

of themselves under the Philological faculty, and can never occasion the rise of a separate faculty of Theology. One objection only can be raised. From the view-point of the Trichotomists it can be asserted that

consist of body it is

and

soul^

but of hody^

soul,

and

man

does not

spirit,

and that

therefore entirely rational, by the side of a faculty for

bod}'- and a faculty for the soul, to place a third faculty', which has the spirit (jrvev^ia) of man for its object, and that this should be the Theological. Thus next to a Somatology and a Psychology, there should also be a Pneumatology as "Dritte im Bunde." This objection, however, cannot stand. The organism of science cannot be analyzed, or, if you please, divided, according to the measure of a distinction accepted only by a single school, but disputed by other schools, and

the

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