Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 641

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ARTICULATION OF rKOP^DEUTICS

§ 97.

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theological faculty the departments needed for these examinations.

But

so far as Theology stands in vital connection

with the Church this

tie is a natural one beyond this it Hence ecclesiastical even influence should ceases to The Church her further. states need, but the extend no question in what way, in Avhat order, and in what connection this need must be met is encyclopedic and pedagogic. That which exists mechanically can be taken apart and recon;

exist.

structed differently at will, but this life.

That which

is

not possible with organic

lives organically obeys, in its organic devel-

opment, an inner law of life. It is as it is because it sprang from its germ thus and not otherwise, and because it can assume no proportions except those Avhich it possesses by By violently attacking the life of an organism, you nature. can occasion anaesthesia or hypersesthesia, atrophy or hypertrophy, of one of the organs, but this does not modify the

That remains the same as before. Concerning the organism of theology, therefore, we cannot but think that all interference on the part of the Government should be most firmly resisted that the Church both ma}' and must exert an influence by the appointment of those studies which she deems necessary for the maintenance of her life, provided she does not presume to determine in what way her requirement shall be met; and that therefore the construction of the body of theology can be determined by itself alone This does not deny that as it unfolds its organic existence. this organic articulation (Gliederung) is formulated by our nature of the organism.

;

thinking.

But

if

this task

of the simple statement of

is

properly performed,

what kind

it

of organic life

consists

we have

discovered in the organism of theolog5^ § 97.

The

Organic Articulation of Propcedeuties

discussion of propaedeutics, as such,

in a ratio studiorum,

and not

is

really in place

in Encyclopedia proper.

And

Encyclopedia cannot afford to pass the propaedeutic studies by in silence. For these studies are not accidental, neither they are chosen arbitrarily, but are indicated of themselves 3^et

in the organic ties that bind theology to the other parts of the

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