Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 287

Chap.

THE FRUIT OF REVELATION

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also be transposed

and knowledge

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by man into subjective hiowledge of God That -which God reveals is conscious

of His perfections.

of Himself, before

He

reveals

it.

He is not a He Himself

Light from which effulgence radiates, while His self-knowledge is absolute, does not know that light. and the impulse to reveal His perfections arises from His knowledge of them. And therefore this revelation of His perfections does not reach its aim nor point of rest until God Hence, without ever giving themselves to intelis known. lectualism, the Holy Scriptures always put this knowledge of G-od in the foreground, and stand in prospect a " knowing of God as we are known." If Mozart had been a completely self-conscious musician, he would not have been able to develop his compositions otherwise than with the will and aim of finding performers and hearers

who would

not only hear his compositions and perform them, hut ivould also

understand them.

And

in like

manner revelation

flows

from the archetypal knowledge of God and strives to become Thus revelation itself ectypal knowledge of God in man. is properly no Theology, but flows from the auto-Theology in God Himself and has Theology, i.e. knowledge of God in man, for its result.

to

This leads to our third proposition, viz. that man, in order do this., must he adajjted by nature, relation and process to

inte^yret ivhat has heen revealed as a revelation of Grod

reduce

it to sid'jectlve

and

to

knoiuledge of God.

was the aim of propositions one and two to show that man did not come into being indifferent as to the manner how, and only afterwards revelation was added to him as an auxiliary, and was therefore adapted to his need; but that, on the contrary, revelation finds its end in God, and our human race was in its creation entirely adapted to this revelation. In this third proposition examine this original and necessary relation between revelation on the one side and the nature, relation and development process of our race It

on the other.

And we

point at once to the twofold office

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