Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 370

34&

§ 67.

regeneration

WHAT is

IS

HERE TO BE UNDERSTOOD

[Div. Ill

not an element in knowing (cognoscere), but

and if account is taken of the fact that the whole revelation of God, though directed by the Logos, nevertheless proceeds through an entire series of events and wonders, and finally culminates in the essential incarnation and all it carries with it, then it is evident that the distinction between theology and the other sciences not only formally touches the principium of faith, and materially the " good word of God " (^KaXbv Oeov prj^a), but also penetrates This explains the fact that the into our real being (esse). Theosophists, and in part the Mystics in the tracks of the former, have sought to obtain the knowledge of God along in being (esse),

this

way

of being (via essendi).

And

this difference in the

real being (esse)

must indeed be taken

least so far as

concerns

it

its

modality.

into

account,

He who

at

neglects

and thereby undermines all must not be lost from sight the essential forms no fundamental

to do this, annuls regeneration, faith in miracles.

Meanwhile

that the distinction in

it

Sin is no essence (esse), but a modality of it and consequently regeneration, whicli annuls and conquers sin, can create no other essence, but can merely reestablish from its perverted modality the original real being (esse) into its ideal modality. He who deems that this touches the essentia itself, and not its modus simply, becomes a Manichrean. And if it be said that we must take account of "the powers of the world to come," etc., we answer, that from the beginning there has been an organic connection between the creature in his present and eternal condition. Even with the most radical metamorIf, phosis there could never be a change of the essence. then, it is beyond doubt, that, on account of regeneration and miracles, real being (esse) must also be considered, no two principles of being stand over against each other in

antithesis.

(to esse) ;

;

the realm of nature, as well as in the realm of grace,

it is

and remains the original principium of being, even though Very this principium operates in the two in different ways. properly, therefore, T\\QOSophy has been dismissed, and the full

emphasis has been put on TheoZo^^ as such.

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