Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 624

CHAPTER IV THE ORGANISM OF THEOLOGY § 93.

Part of an Organism

By the organism of theology we mean what is commonly called " the division of the theological departments." Since, however, theology as an organic whole is itself an organic member of the all-embracing organism of science, for the sake of clearness, a short resume is here necessary of what was treated in our

first

chapter.

Notwithstanding our position

that science shows itself in a twofold form, viz. science as

prosecuted in the circle outside of palingenesis, and science

by palingenesis, this anmerely empirical. According to its idea there is but one science, and they who do not reckon with palingenesis naturally refuse to see anything but the result of imagination and obscurantism in what is science to And we, in turn, refuse to acknowledge as science the lis. science which is studied outside of palingenesis. As said before, both these sciences have a very broad field in common, which includes all those objects which are not affected by the as studied in the circle ruled over tithesis is nevertheless

differentiation of palingenesis, in so far as tlie investigation

these objects employs no other functions of our mind than those which have remained uninjured by the darkening brought upon us by sin. This embraces, in the first place, everything that is commonly called sciences by the of

English, and sciences exactes by the French

;

at least so far

exponents of these sciences hold themselves to their task, and do not make cosraological inferences or construct philosophical hypotheses. But in the second place, the sub-

as the

ordinate labor of the spiritual sciences also belongs to this, so far as

it

tends exclusively to collect and determine exter-

nal, observable data.

Hence

a very large part of philological GOO

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