Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 334

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§ 03.

FALSIFICATIONS OF

[Div. Ill

but only our crutches, i.e. not natural theology, but only This last point has been less denied special revelation. than entirely abolished by Schleiermacher, as well as by

we deny that the subjective-empiric and the speculative schools, which they called into life, are But this does able to offer us any real and actual theology. not destroy the fact that the motive which impelled them conAfter the Reformation orthodoxy tained an inward truth. withdrew itself all too quickly from general human life. It became too greatly an isolated phenomenon, which, however and when it beautiful in itself, was too much disconnected undertook to distil a kind of compendium from the so-called natural theology, and in all its poverty to place this by the Hegel, and in so far

;

side of the rich display of special revelation,

it

belittled this

natural theology to such an extent, that rationalism could not fail of its

opportunity to show

itself

while orthodoxy, removed from

and

to administer reproof;

its basis,

was bound

to turn

into inwardly thin supranaturalism with its external sup-

Thus

ports. of the

name.

there was no longer a scientific theology worthy

All that remained was, on the one hand, a m3'sti-

cism without clearness, and on the other hand a barren frame-

and facts, without the glow of life or This was observed with great sharpness of vision by Schleiermacher, as well as by Hegel, and both endeavored to find again, in the reality of life, a B6^ /xot irov aro) (starting-point) for religion, and thus also for theology. They did this each in his own way Schleiermacher by withdrawing himself into human nature, as religious and social in character and Hegel, on the other hand, by extending the world of human thought so broadly, that theology also found a place in it. From subjectivity, i.e. from mysticism, Schleiermacher came to theological thought, Hegel, from the thought of man, hence from intellectualism, to religion. Thus together they grasped natural reality by the two handles which this reality presents for religion. Natu-

work of

of propositions

reality.

:

;

ral

of

first, ectypal knowledge founded in the human consciousness, and secondly, capacity of man to grasp this ectypal knowledge

theology includes two elements

God

as

the pistic

:

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