Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 421

Chap.

II]

§ 73.

THIS rRINCiriUM

AND HOLY SCRIPTURE

397

answer to tlie questions which force themselves upon our human mind, in another way than that which comes from While in other circles, where this the natural principium. Spiritualism has gained no entrance, the effort is certainly manifest, to obtain knowledge from the mysticism of the

emotions, of what "common sense" has left uncertain. Every philosqphicaljendency, which, for the sake of defending itselTagainst intellectualism, seeks another source of

knowledge, pleads at heart for the necessity of a special Pure intellectualists alone maintain to this principium. day the sufficiency of the principium of rational knowledge; and this is even in opposition to Kant, who, in his "prac-^ tische Vernunft," placed a second something dualistically over against the "reine Vernunft."

such intellectualism

We

is

But

the barrenness of

sufficiently evident.

refuse, therefore, to allow the charge, that the special

principium, as an invention of fanaticism, floats like a drop of oil upon the waters of our human life, and we maintain,

on the contrary, that the need

of such

an auxiliary principium

organic working this prinis univermlly human ; that cipium bears an universally human character and that in the in its

;

final result

human

towards which

it

directs itself,

it

has an universally

significance. § 73.

This Principium and the Holy Scripture

That the sphere

of the special principium

is

wider than

Holy Scripture, needs no separate demyou firmly maintain that here you though Even

the compass of the onstration.

it is here as impossible of being (essendi). principium as elsewhere to ignore the It is for this reason that in special revelation also fact and word run parallel and stand in connection with each other. There is not simply an inspiration that kindles light in our

deal with a principium of knowing,

consciousness, but there

is

also a manifestation in miracles

and both flow which operates upon the reality of being naturally from that same principium in God, by which He works re-creatively in His deranged creation. The representation as though a way of life could have been disclosed ;

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