Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 544

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§ 84.

THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

And

zens," in a natural way.

the question, whether the nat-

God who

ure of this content joins itself to what

on hand in the person

[Div. Ill

whom He

inspires

answered as follows that the restoration of what was profaned of necessity joins itself to the condition of the profaned, and that the organs of revelation, whose own condition was that of depravity, and who themselves lived in this desecrated cosmos, found, both in themselves and in that cosmos, the canvas stretched on which the floral designs of grace were to be emfinds

inspires

is

:

broidered. § 84.

Man

The Forms of Inspiration

received in his creation more than one string to the

harp of his soul, and according to the nature of the objects that hold his attention his

mood changes, he strikes a different new phases. The lyrical

key, and his mental action assumes

world

differs in principle

from the epical

pulse far exceeds both in creative power

hand, poetical inspiration accentuates poetry.

Thus

the

human mind

7nultiformity of expression,

is

;

;

the dramatic im-

while, on the other

itself least in didactic

disposed by nature to a

which sustains connection with the

multiformity of material that engages our attention. since there

is

And

a wide difference in the material that consti-

tutes the content of Revelation,

the inspiration of the

Holy

it

is

entirely natural that

Spirit has

made use

of that

multiformity of our spiritual expression, and thus assumes at one time a lyric character, at another time

an

epical,

times even a dramatic, but especially also one that

To some

extent one

may even

is

some-

didactic.

say that in these aesthetic

variegations certain fundamental forms are given for inspi-

and if need be the entire content of the Scripture might be divided after these four fundamental types. Since, however, outside of the Scripture also these four fundamental types continually overlap each other and give rise to mixed forms, it is more advisable to borrow the division of these This we do types from the content of the Scripture itself. when we distinguish between lyric, ehokmatic, prophetic and apostolic inspiration, among which the inspiration of the ration,

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