Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 248

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§ 55.

THE INFLUENCE OF PALINGENESIS

tins will be the task of the following chapters.

[Div. II

But

at this

point let us briefly consider the relation which, from the

view-point of palingenesis, must exist between the Theological faculty

and the other

faculties.

All prosecution of science which starts out from naturalistic

premises denies the subjective fact of palingenesis, as

well as the objective

fact

of

a special

revelation,

which

immediately corresponds to this. Even though the inconsistency is committed of maintaining from this point of view a Theological faculty,

no influence worth the mention can

ever be exerted by this faculty upon the other faculties. Religion, which as a

phenomenon is the object to be invesis and remains an expression of the life of the emotions, which, however strong its hold may be upon life, either remains unexplained, or allows itself to tigated by this faculty,

common

Alongside of the ethical but the study of that religious life imposes no claims upon the studies of the other sciences, nor does it exercise an influence upon their methods. be classed in the

and

scope.

testhetical life, there is also a religious life

This,

of course,

we

genesis

is

altogether different,

when

;

in palin-

recognize a critical and a restorative fact, which

both subjectively and objectively places all things, along with their origin and issue, before us in an entirely different light. In the Holy Scriptures palingenesis is a general conception, which Tit.

iii.

is

5), as well

xix. 28).

applied to the subject of science {vide as to the object of science (vide Matt,

assumes a first genesis, which by a departure from its principle has led to death, and

It

of the process of life

now

it

declares that a repetition of the genesis takes place,

but this time as a springing up again of that which went down, and that in this restoration the method of genesis This is repeats itself, viz. the development from a germ. applied to man in all his inward life, but will sometime be applied as well to man's somatical existence, as to the whole

cosmos outside of him, as far false process.

human mind

;

as this also has shared in the

Hence palingenesis

is

now

operative in the

and, analogous to this, palingenesis will here-

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