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70.

5;

RELATION BETWEEN THIS PRINCIPIUM

[Div. Ill

merely a weaker form of opinion based on probability, which capitulates the moment a surer knowledge supersedes your defective evidence. And as regards the objection, that all this is very excellent, provided it does not include the Scriptures, and no other thought is entertained than of the mystical com-

munion with the eternal Being, simple reference to what was but even without this explained in § 46 sq. would suffice that, as a matter of fact, such faith might say we reference, it concerned the Holy Scriptures. itself where has only shown ;

In other circles

many

different emotions have likewise been

experienced, brilliant exhibitions of ethical heroism been

and many sorts of religious expressions observed, both and otherwise but here we treat of the " Knowledge of God " (Cognitio Dei) and of the principia from which And that faith, which leads this knowledge of God flows. individuals and whole circles to conscious worship, not of the " Unknown God " at Athens, but of the hioivn Father ^^'ho is in heaven, is not found, except where the Scriptures have been the Divine instrument, in God's hand, of that knowledge. seen,

aesthetic

§ 70.

;

Relation between this Principium and the Natural

Principium

The acknowledgment

of the

Holy Scriptures

as the prin-

cipium of theology gives rise to an antithesis between this principium and the common principium of our knowledge. From this antithesis a certain relation between the two is born, and this relation also must be investigated. We speak here only of theology in the narrower sense as knowledge of G^od (cognitio Dei), and in so far we might limit ourselves to the relation

(theologia

naturalis

between natural and revealed theology and revelata), which is virtually the

contents of this section.

But

this

we

will not do.

First,

because the formal action of our thinking is also involved, and secondly, because with natural theology one thinks more of the content, while here we are interested almost exclusively witli tlie

principium from whicli this content flows.

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