Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 133

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Chap.

§ 43.

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SCIENCE

AND

SIN

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approved by the spirit of the times and inculcated in us, in it becomes clear that our mind, which of itself lies ensnared in all

the face of the fact that they are fallacious, and

manner of deceptions, is threatened to be entirely misled. (6) The effects worked b}^ sin through the body claim here In consequence of sin there is an equal consideration. All sorts of really no one in a normal bodily condition. wrong and sickly commotions bestir themselves in our body and work their effect in our spiritual dispositions. They make one to tend strongly to the material, and another too strongly to the acosmic.

and

B

They

a light-hearted optimist.

ment upon

history, for instance, according to the influences

which we see perhaps,

is

ships of life

make A a pessimist, They also modify the judg-

will

at

work upon persons.

(7) Stronger

still,

the influence of the sin-disorganized relation-

— an influence which makes

itself especially felt

with the pedagogic and the social sciences. He who has had his bringing-up in the midst of want and neglect will entertain entirely different views of jural relationships and social regulations from him who from his youth has been bathed Thus, also, your view of civil right would in prosperity. be altogether different, if you had grown up under a despotism, than if you had spent the years of early manis

To which (8) this yet to be added, that the different parts of the content

of

our consciousness affect each other, and no one exists

hood under the excesses of anarchism.

This entails the result which you have gleaned from one realm of life, affect injuriously again the similarly mixed ideas which you have made your own from another domain. And so this evil indefinitely multiplies. Especially the leading thought which we have formed in that realm of life that holds our chiefest interests, exercises a mighty dominion upon the whole content of our

atomistically in his consciousness. that the inaccuracies

and

false representations

consciousness, viz. our religious or political views,

— what

used to be called one's life- and world-view, by which the fundamental lines lie marked out in our consciousness. If, then, we make a mistake, or a single inaccurate move, how

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