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THEOLOGICAL MODALITY

§ 57.

[Div. Ill

knowledge

God, he also emphasizes the way of contemplation (via contemplaThomas Aquinas also tionis) and the seeing of God. occupies this point of view in the main, and in his footsteps

method

intellectual

also Calvin.

Summa

of attaining the

Thomas' chief work

of

bears, indeed, the title of

but in his introduction he sj'steraatically treats of the sacra doctrina, which really is not Theology Only rarely does the itself, but circa theologiam versatur.

word

theologica.,

theologia occur

with him,

as, for

instance,

when

in P.

he says: "But in i. i. Qu. God, for it is made about chiefly is this science discourse ("Sed in hac God" discourse about called Theology, as being enim theodicitur scientia fit sermo principaliter de Deo; Here, however, he gives us logia, quasi sermo de Deo'''). least of all a definition, but derives an argument from the Neap., 1762,

art. 7, ed.

etymology

of the

word

I., p. 12'\

to maintain "

object of the 'sacred doctrine.'

The

God "

(6 ^eo?) as the

real conception

which

he attaches to Theology is therefore much more clearly seen from what he says concerning faith, hope and love as the three virtutes theologicae (see I., secundae, qu. 62, art. i. Let it be noted also that he did not write as the sq.). title of his

work

:

Summa

theologme, but

Summa

Moor, in his Comm. in Marck., Tom.

De

I.,

p.

theologica. 9,

quotes

these words of Thomas: "Theology is taught by God, teaches of God, and leads to God" ("Theologia a Deo docetur, Deum docet et ad Deum ducit ") since, however, ;

he does not name the place where he found this citation, it In like manner Calvin does not give is not to be verified. to his dogmatics the title of Epitome Theologiae, but of Institutio theologia,

religionis Christianae, and translates the word which he almost everywhere avoids, by notitia Dei

The indexes are not trustwortliy The index to Thomas as well as Calvin's Institutes gives a meaning to the word Theology which the word Theology itself was used neither by Thomas

(cf.

Lib.

I., c. i., §

i.

sg.).

Yvrith reference to this.

to

in

nor by Calvin.

This distinction, now, which maintained itself for a lono- time between theological science as sacred learning

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