Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 632

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THE BOUNDARY OV THEOLOGY

§ 95.

view-point

palingenesis,

of

[Div. Ill

he prosecutes his studies,

own

conviction, and he must nothing binds him but try to overcome, if possible, the conflicts that are sure to present themselves. In this, however, he will not always his

succeed, because the

And

impossible.

want

of the necessary data renders this

neither can the claim be

made

that the solu-

by him shall be at once accepted by every one Even in the scientific circles of Law, History and Phielse. losoph}'-, which do not reckon with palingenesis, differences of tendency and insight prevail, from which definite schools form themselves, which arise only presently to go down All this is but owing to the limitation of our power again. to know, to the paucity of data at our command, and to the usual impossibility of verification. The slow progress made tion found

in this direction

chiefly to be attributed to the fact that

is

have studied the above-mentioned conflicts almost exclusively, and that the Christians who have devoted themselves to these studies have for the most part been dualistically constituted, being heathen with the head and Christian at heart. And real advances will be made only when men who are themselves heart and soul alive to the efficacy of regeneration, at the same time devote all their powers of theolog^ians

thought to these natural and historical studies, and so face these very conflicts.

The theologian his

also

is

familiar with

these

conflicts

in

domain, occasioned by the incongruity which so often

appears between natural and revealed theolog3^

The

theo-

concerned with re-creation, and in the very idea of re-creation lies the antithesis between that which is logian also

is

undergo the re-creative act and that which is established outcome of that act. Hence there is always a duality (1) the old data, which are present in what shall be regenerated, and (2) the neio data, which shall constitute the

to as

The Scripture, therefore, does not hesitate " old man " and of the " new man " (Col. the to speak of regeneration.

what present data must be removed (aTre/cSuo-acr^ai), and what data, brought in from By that which must without, must appear (evZva-acrOai). iii.

10), by which to indicate

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