Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 643

OF PROPAEDEUTICS

Chap. IV]

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the same time that propaedeutics cannot stand on any other

foundation than the study of theolog}^ itself. Propsedeutica pagan sense, standing outside of palingenesis, denies

in the

the organic connection between theology and other studies,

and does not prepare

Hence

for,

but leads one away from, theology. academic

the character of preparatory as well as of

proppedeutics ought to be distinctively Christian; which de-

mand

is 7iot

met by the addition

of religious instruction (a

Religionsstunde) to pagan propaedeutics. the entire preparation

It

demands that

both formal and material, shall

itself,

keep close reckoning with the principles

of a Christian life-

and world-view. He who is himself a partaker of palingenesis, and who consequently pays homage to the Cross of Golgotha as the centre of the development of human history, has an entirely different outlook upon the propaedeutic departments from him who as a humanist boasts of a credat ludaens Appella. tics of

theology

is

And

demand for a proper propaedeuonly met when the organic relation between the

the propredeutical studies and the study of theology in the

narrower sense

is

given

closely considered, the pily chosen.

full

name

scope to assert

Indeed,

itself.

if

of propaedeutics is not very hap-

The theologian does not

pass on to theological

studies, in order henceforth to ignore all other sciences, but,

proportionately to the rate of his progress, he finds himself constantly

bound

own and

still

between

his

as, for instance, in

the

to trace the organic connection

other studies.

Such

and ethnologic studies of the religious differences of non-Christian nations. His own studies are not isolated at a single point, and it only weakens the position of theology Moreto prosecute her studies as though she stood alone. over, later study must be continued with a definite end in view, in those departments which at first seemed as proEvery student of Church History is aware paedeutics only. of this with reference to the knowledge of history the same historic

;

applies to Philosophy, even Psychology, Philosophical Ethics,

and ^Esthetics." Of course this applies

and Other demands apply

to the scientific theologian only,

not to everv Minister of the

Word.

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