Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 654

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THE OEGANISM OF

§ 99.

[Div. Ill

In the subjective division the principiura operates out of the human mind, which lends If, on the other itself to the four above-named functions.

sion

which operates from the

object.

hand, the organic division is to arise from the analysis of the object itself, then the principium of division must be derived

from the object. This objective principium of division must be found in the principium of theology itself. In the devel-

opment

of its

germ the plant

of itself brings the

organic

Holy Scripture is this plain that those departments is it theology, principium of with the Holy Scriptdeal which hand in should first be taken departments those group second ure as such; then as a spread of branches and stem.

If the

which trace the working of the Word of G-od in the life of the Church then in a third group the departments should be combined which reflect the content of the Scripture in our consciousness; and finally a fourth group should arise from those departments which answer the question, how the working of the Word of God, subject to His ordinances, must he maintained. Thus the division into four groups is the same, but now it is taken from the object, after a principium of The Word of God, division which lies in the object itself. ;

first

as such, then in

content,

and

its tvorking, after

finally in its

repeated when one speaks,

first,

that according to

This

propaganda.

is

its

most accurately

of a Bihliological, then of

an

Ucclesiological, after that of a Bogmatological, and finally of a In the Bible you have the Word in Diaconiological group. itself

;

in the

Church

ation, objectified in this

Word

(^Ecclesia),

reflects itself in the

ness; and in the Biaconia,

ministry

is

indicated,

i.e.

you

see the

Word

in oper-

Dogma the content of sanctified human conscious-

the reality;

in

the

office,

which must be

the service of the

fulfilled for the

sake of

that Word. It is

not by accident that these groups thus indicated cor-

respond to the

common

division of

Exegetical, Historical,

is accounted for by Systematic and Practical Theology of the body members organic the fact that each of these four of the human function of Divinity emphasizes a peculiar ;

mind.

but

In the investigation of the Bible as such exegesis

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