Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 682

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§ 104.

DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFORMITY

[Div. Ill

thought of unregenerate humanity as an independent whole. It is with him still too much a subtle gymnastic of intellect, which defends every part of the Church confession of that distinctions, and again by distinctions against objecand vindicates the same as being in harmony with And it was especially serious because thus the reason. foundation of the building of Christian Doctrine was sought by far too much in the subject itself and for the subject in For thus finally reason sat in judgment, the understanding. and though reason appeared in favor of the doctrines of the Church when speaking from the mind of a Thomas, there Avas no guarantee that this same reason in another subject would not presently arrive at an opposite conclusion, and then where was the triumph of the Christian religion? In Abelard it had already been shown with what fire men were playing. That fire had been extinguished by the holy energy of Bernard of Clairvaux and by the ban of Innocent II. But what was to be done, when presently that same fire should break out again in wider extent and with greater fur}^? There was an increase of knowledge, but victory had not The mystical Scholastics were already yet been achieved. aware of this, for which reason they offered dialectical proficiency the support of the fervor of devotion and faith. But, That of course, in this also there was no lasting security. security could be regained only when return was made to the Holy Scripture.

day by tions,

§

Bevelojjment of 31ultiformity

104.

subject in hand is neither Religion nor the Church, Theology as a science, and therefore in the period prebut ceding the Reformation the emphasis falls upon the unfolding

The

of multiformity. sole principium

The return was

to the

Holy Scripture as the Such men

of far-reaching importance.

Thomas Aquinas,

etc., fully

intended to base their confes-

sion

upon the Holy

Scripture,

and on the other hand

also

known

as

ures,

it

is

that while devoted to the study of the Script-

Erasmus held

to the confession of

Rome

till

his death.

Similarly the motive of the newer development has been

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