Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 438

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§ 75.

takes

it

INSPIRATION.

in this sense arrives at

Holy Scripture. knowing (cognoscendi) at the

RELATION

ITS

some

[Div. Ill

sort of Koran, but not

In that case the principium of

is taken entirely apart from the principium of being (essendi), and causes the appearance of an exclusively intellectual product which is outside of

We

then would have an inspiration which dictated intellectually, and could not communicate to us anyEntirely different, on the thing but a doctrine and a law. other hand, is the action of this Divine energy, which, reality.

in spite of sin, carries out the plan of the

the cosmos.

Since indeed

sin

is

Lord

in

and by

not merely intellectual

whole nature of man and brought the curse and disorder even upon nature outside of man, this Divine energy could not overcome the opposition of sin, except it directed itself to the whole reality of our human existence, including nature round Hence this Divine energy constitutes in part about us. (see § 67) the principium essendi, and from it comes miracle, not miracle taken as an isolated phenomenon, which appears without causal connection with the existing world but miracle, as the overcoming, penetrating working of the Divine energy, by which God breaks all opposition, and in the face of disorder brings His cosmos to realize that end which was determined upon in His counsel. It is from the deeper basis of God's will, on which the whole cosmos rests, that this mysterious power works in the cosmos; breaks the bands of sin and disorder, which hold the cosmos in their embrace and centrally from man so influences the entire

in its character, but has corrupted the

—

;

;

must realize the glory intended for it by God, in order in that glory to render unto God what was the end of the entire creation of the cosEvery interpretation of the miracle as a magical mos.

life

of the cosmos, that at length

it

incident without connection with the palingenesis of the

whole cosmos, which Jesus refers to in Matt. xix. 28, and therefore without relation to the entire metamorphosis which awaits the cosmos after the last judgment, does not enhance the glory of God, but debases the Recreator of heaven and This entire recreative action of earth to a juggler (70779).

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