Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 627

Chap. IV]

§ 94.

THEOLOGY AN INDEPENDENT ORGAN

of regenerated or re-created

humanity

;

603

and that so Large a

part of scientific study can be furnished equally well by those who stand outside of this, is simply because this build-

admits a vast amount of hod-carrier service which

ino- also

is

entirely different from the higher architecture. § 94.

In

the

Organism of Science Theology dent Organ

is

an Indepen-

Schleiermacher described theology as an agglomerate of a few departments of knowledge, which found their unity in the " guidance and direction of the Church," he actually ab-

When

rogated theology and her organic existence in the organism of the sciences. An agglomerate is never organic, it is the opposite of organic, and is never made organic by any unity in the

The organic character

purpose of your studies.

of a science

end alone differs in object which of that organism an can never make raentirely was therefore, effort, and principle. The later

carries also in itself a teleological element, but the

by making religion the do not deny that the science of

tional, to regain the unity of object

object of investigation.

We

religion finds an equally organic

place in the organism of

science, as for instance the science of the sesthetic, moral, or It is our conviction that this science intellectual life of man.

got into the wrong track, tion

But

when by

the aid of religious evolu-

repealed the antithesis between true and false religion. even so, this science is formally an organic part of the

it

organism of science.

We

simply deny that in this organism

the science of religion can ever constitute an independent By leading motives the organism of science is divided organ.

were special provinces in the republic of the sciences. Each of these complexes divides itself into smaller complexes, and these smaller complexes subdivide into smaller groups but for this very

into a

few great complexes, which form

as it

;

reason the distinction between the coordinate and the subIn our body the ordinate must not be lost from sight.

nervous system forms a complex of its own; hence everything that is radically governed by the nerves must be subsumed by science under this head. The Veluwe along;

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