Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 630

THE BOUNDARY OF THEOLOGY

606

§ 95.

this ectypal

knowledge

of

God

shines out, and

its

[Div.

working

lU is

observable, the boundaries of theology extend, or what was called its " compass," including, of course, what we must do in order, in our time also, to let the

As

God have free course. which has been exerted by the sphere created by itself of

working of the knowledge

soon, however, as the influence

this is

knowledge of God outside

considered, theology provides

contributions (Lehnsatze) for other sciences, but operates self

no longer.

to other objects,

applied.

As

Then

it

concerns the application of

and no longer the product

of

its

what

it-

results

is

to be

the theologian applies results furnished by logic,

thereby no creator of logic himself, so the jurist, philolmedicus and naturalist must deal with the results of theology without themselves being thereby theologians. So far, on the other hand, as the jurist, the medicus, etc., finds data in revelation which bear not on the way of the knowledge of God, but immediately on his department, he must determine for himself what influence one and another Now we speak of shall exert upon his own investigation. course of the jurist, the philologist, etc., as he should be, i.e. as standing within the pale of palingenesis, and as a Christian bending his knee before the majesty of the Lord and of His Revelation not being limited by Revelation, but enriched and enlarged by it, seeing what otherwise he would not see, knowing what otherwise would be hidden from

but

is

ogist,

;

We

do not advocate, therefore, a certain subserviency queen of sciences. a relation of misof such question There can never be a among the sciences. tress and servant, in a scientific sense, He who investigates may render no obedience to any but the irresistible impulse of his own conviction. Even where material (Lehnsatze) is borrowed by other sciences from theology, it occurs by no other authority than that by which theology in turn borrows material from other sci-

him.

of the other sciences to theology as the

under the conviction that by similar investigawould reach like results. The conflicts which arise from this are therefore no conflicts between theology and the other sciences, but conflicts which the jurist, the physi-

ences,

i.e.

tions one

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