Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 362

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SACRED THEOLOGY

§ 66.

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and satanic, and But however much this what is true, hol}^ and divine. proper principium of theology, far from underestimating the natural principium, rather takes it up in itself, as the next chapter will show, the antithesis between the normal and abnormal, the general and special, and between that which is bound by sin and that which surmounts sin, of these " two sources of knowledge," can never be destroyed. To emphasize tJiis antithesis, the word " sacred " was used in simple imitation of the Scripture, and in this entirely Scriptural sense our science was called Sacred Theology. If thus the principal motive for the use of this word antithesis

between

Avliat is u'icked, foolish

" sacred " lies in the peculiar character of the object of the

science of theology, a second motive

was added

in conse-

quence of the peculiar quality which in the investigation of this object was claimed as a necessity in the sidject. Tliis was on the ground of 1 Cor. ii. 14, that " the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him " and also because he who stands outside of palingenesis "cannot see the kingdom of God." Hence, there was not simply an antithesis to be considered between the object of this and of all other sciences but a ;

;

was and presently to reproNot every one can engage in this work, but only

similar antithesis also presented itself in the subject, that to take this theology

duce they

it.

who

up

into itself

are spiritually minded.

domain

possible in the

this theology is " foolishness,"

the

"wisdom

of

No

of this science,

God."

They

intellectual relation

is

whom whom it is

between those

and the others to only, who by virtue

to

of palin-

genesis are partakers of spiritual illumination, have their ej'es

opened

to see the object to

not see

it,

ity

or see

it

be investigated.

wrongly.

By

The

others do

reason of the lack of

affin-

between subject and

the object

is

object, every deeper penetration into impossible. The rule that " in thy light we see

light " finds here its special application.

be our guide in the domain of optics. true, therefore, that in the science of

general

human

consciousness

is

No

blind

Though

it is

man

can

entirely

Theology the ego of the

the general subject, yet this

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