Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 293

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Chap.

THE FRUIT OF REVELATION

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nothing in

me beyond

am

left to the

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and feelings If from this mysticism I want to advance to knowledge^ and transform revelation into theology, the logical action must enter in between perception must pass over into thought ; impression must sublimate itself into a conception; and thus the seed of religion must unfold the flower-bud in the word; viz. the word of adoration. Hence this logical action also was inwhile I

perceptions, impressions

mysticism of

my

emotions.

;

simply because otherwise it could This, however, should not be taken in

cluded in innate theology

have been no theologg. the sense that

Adam was

chism in his head

;

created with some sort of a cate-

for logical action

;

presumes subjective

human mind. If, therefore, we should speak entire accuracy, we should say that there was no incretheology in Adam, but that he was so created, that, in

action of the Avith

ated his

awakening

to self-consciousness, he arrived of necessity

from the data that were present in him. In a literal sense respiration was not increated in Adam, for the first inhalation only came when the creation was completed, while before the creation was ended he could Breathing is an action of the person not draw breath. at this original theology

which comes only when the person

exists.

Since

all

the

conditions for breathing are given in our nature, and every person born in this nature breathes of himself and from

acknowledge that respiration were mere prudery, therefore, to

necessity, no one hesitates to is

inborn with us

all.

It

object to the expression of innate or concreate theology

though theology

Adam

is

;

for

the result of a logical action in the sub-

took place immediately and it was by this alone that the and from necessity receiving of an oral revelation was already possible in paradise. For it is plain that the entire representation which the Scripture gives us of the intercourse with God in paradise, of the fall and subsequent promise, becomes unintelligible and falls away, if we assume in Adam exclusively the sense of the eternal, and deny him all conscious

ject,

wdth

this logical action ;

knowledge of God. Language itself decides the

case.

Speech without Ian-

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