Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 639

Chap. IV]

SELF-DETERMINATION OF THEOLOGY

§ 96.

615

philosophy, whose theistic point of departure is fixed, is able to lead to unity of interpretation within the circle of regeneration.

hand

But for this very reason theology will be able to go It is the task hand with a Christian philosophy.

in of philosophy to arrange concentrically the results of all the

other sciences, and

if

non-Christian philosophy ignores the

though it were no science, theology duty bound to enter her protest against this. If, on the other hand, the philosopher himself is regenerate, and is historically and ecclesiastically in union with the life of palingenesis, then of course in his studies he includes the

results of theology, as is

in

theology, together with the results of all the other sciences; and it is his care, architectonically to raise such a cosmological building that of themselves the results

results

of

of theology also find their place in § 96.

it.

Self-determination of the Organism of Theology

Theological Encyclopedia includes generally the question As the matter

of the relation of theology to the Utiiversitg.

actually stands in Europe, however, this question concerns If the universithe relation of theology to the Government.

were free corporations, as formerly they were intended to be, and as they are sometimes now (in Belgium, in the Netherlands, America, England and in Switzerland), and as they ought to be everywhere, this question would entirely fall away; for then this relation would merely be an item

ties

of history.

But

this question is

day in most countries the most

important because to

this

influential universities are

founded, supported and governed by state Thus the Government determines not merely

state institutio7is,

authorities.

the number, rank and quality of the faculties; but directs also the organism of theology, as being on a par with the

other sciences, by

its

conditions for every chair, and by

choice of departments, which Even and the same chair. right, since it

the

it

its

unites as a group under one

in former times this

was not

can never be derived from it shall determine the organism of the attributes of

Government, that

theology.

But

this raised

no preponderating

difficulty, inas-

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