Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 451

CONNECTION WITH MIRACLES

Chap. II]

our body, the redemption also of the body reunion with the separated soul.

is

427 possible

and

its

Thus one needs merely

to return to the counsel of God, back of creation and re-creation, and embraces both in unity, in order once for all to escape from the mechanical representation of a Divine interference in an independently existing nature. Sin and misery will, without doubt, continue to bear the character of a disturbance, and consequently all re-creation the character of providence and restoration, but both creation and re-creation flow forth from This is most clearly apparent the selfsame counsel of God. from the fact, that re-creation is by no means merely the healing of the breach or the repairing of what was broken and disturbed. Spiritually, regeneration does by no means

which

restore

lies

the

sinner to the state

(justitia originalis).

He who

both lower so far as he

still

^

in his heart,

and

original righteousness

of

has been regenerated stands

inwoven no more our body does

carries the tendrils of sin

higher, so far as potentially he can

Likewise physically, the resurrection of by no means return to us an Adamic body, but a glorified body. Neither will the parousia bring back to us the old Hence the paradise, but a new earth under a new heaven. matter stands thus, that in the counsel of God there were two ways marked out, by which to lead soul, body and world to their organic consummation in the state of glory: one ajjart fall.

from sin, by gradual development, and the other, through sin, by a potentially absolute re-creation and that, furthermore, in creation everything was disposed to both these possibilities. If nature is taken in its concrete appearance, it is no longer what it was in the creation, but its ordinance is disturbed; and if this disturbed ordinance is accepted as its real and permanent one, then indeed, its re-creation, in us as well as about us, must appear to us as a violence brought upon it, for the sake of destroying the violence which we inflicted upon it by sin. If, on the other hand, you take nature as it appears in creation itself, and with its foundations lies in the counsel of God, then its original ordinance demands that this disturbance be reacted against, and it be brought to realize its end (TeA.09); ;

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