Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 271

Chap.

THE IDEA OF THEOLOGY

§ 58.

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name according

Had

to their nature.

247

this capacity

remained

would have assumed an en-

intact in us, zoology of course

and not in a lesser but in a much For the still have been zoology. knowledge of animals in paradisaical man was not analogous to the vague perception which we now have immediately of the world of sounds or of moral phenomena, but it Avas logitirely different

higher sense

cal

;

form

as is evident

And

the name.

;

Avould

it

from the fact that in this sense

led to the giving of

it

presents an analogy for

it

Theology in its two different phases. Just as now in zoology scientific study is indispensable if we would obtain a logical knowledge of the animal, in our present dispensation Theological study

is

equally indispensable to obtain

But

the logical knowledge of God.

as in paradise

study, in the dispensation of glory

a

much more complete and

j^et

by because

and

is

we

the antithesis between our knowledge

knowledge

of

God,

equally applicable to

theologia unionis

for the sake of clearness

this

will similarly attain

logical

This

without theological study. theologia jjiiradisi

man

knowl-

man without

edge of animals was at the disposal of

but this we pass

;

are considering only " of God " in a glass

here and " face to face " in glory. If it is

now

plain that the theological idea lies in the

human consciousness to know God, independently of the way in which this knowledge impulse of our

acquired, our object has been gained.

The

it

leads us by different

way which we must

travel

is

ways

to be

idea of Theology

demands

of our

to our ideal.

The

as such is imperishable, but, according to the

condition,

entirely is

that of theological study, and

born from this study can with entire is not done in an exclusive sense, and this science admits no other motive than to know or lemm to Jcnotv Grod. Every concejjtion of Theol-

the science which

is

propriety be called Theology, provided this

ogy which fail.

is

not subordinated to the idea of Theology must

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