Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 234

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§ 53.

the psychical is

THE FIVE FACULTIES

life materialistically,

to allow this physical science to

[Div. II

shows how ill-advised

make only

it

practical ad-

vances, Avithout attaining encycloi^edically to self-conscious-

ness and giving itself

an account of the place which it A scientific Encyclopedia, worthy of the name, is the very thing it altogether lacks and only when it makes serious work of this can the question be answered, whether as a culminating department Pldlosophy of nature belongs to this faculty. occupies in the great organism of science.

;

If

now

drawn

the outline of the four

fairly

correctly,

the

named

question

been whether the

faculties has

arises

them in organic connecwith a proper object, and in good coordination. To make this clear it will not do to begin by making the conception of Theology fluid. All judgment concerning the Theological faculty joins itself to

tion,

Juridical faculty interpret

it

now

is

again as the facultas

way

rendered

impossible

so

soon as you

as the facultas juris, or legal faculty, societatis, or sociological faculty.

and

Much

from the labyrinth on theological ground, if by Theology you understand, now, that which was originally understood by it, and again supersede this verified conception by an entirely different

less will a

of escape be discovered

one, such as, for

instance, the Science

of Religion.

The

study of the nature of Theology is in order in the following division, so that in this chapter we can do no other than

which we start out from, and after that review the Theological faculty, and in historical connection with this determine the place of Theology in the organism state the conception

of science.

do

Because of the importance of the subject

this in a separate chapter.

Ave

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