Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 369

Chap.

BY PRINCIPIUM

II]

the side of this

sinner.

the

God

knowledge life

3-1:5

there should proceed an activity to iuiijart smful man, in keeping- with his need as

to

The latter then, however, took place outside of that sprang of itself from the creation principium

and the knowledge connected with it it was a special principle (proprium quid), which only stepped in between provisionally, and was destined to disappear again, as soon as the normal development of our race had reached its final end. ;

way

God to the sinner was from a special principium in God from this principium in God this action went out to the world and to the sinner and as soon as man thus operated upon began to give an account to himself of the common phenomena of, and of this abnormal process in, his life, from the nature of the case the principium of all the In this

this self-revelation of

materialiter

also

an

action

;

;

rest

would

lie

in creation, while

entirely special action It

made no

is

found

the

principium of this

God.

in a re-creative act of

difference that, along with this action, existino-

elements froni creation were employed. Such elements were then assimilated by the active principium and rendered serviceable to it, just like the chisel in the hands of the sculptor, or as a board sawn from a tree, which serves for the hull of

a

ship.

If

in theology, therefore, as

such formaliter.

there lay the claim that

it

knowing

principium of Theology

of its

own,

this

springs out of a principium of is

distin-

guished, by and in consequence of sin, from the principium of knowing in the domain of the other sciences materialiter also,

and hence concerns both the formal and the material

principium. of

In part it may even be maintained, that the principium being (essendi) is also included here. That self -re viola-

tion of

God

to the sinner

is

possible even without

a pre-

shown in the case of Balaam but this exception does not make the rule the general rule is, that regeneration precedes spiritual illumination. The "enlightened " of Heb. vi. 4 do not stand in the same line with the "enlightened" of Eph. i. 18. The latter only are "spiritceding regeneration,

is

;

;

ual " and

"have received the things of the Spirit

of

God." This

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