Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 294

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§ 60.

guage

is

ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

inconceiyable, and

lie

who

[Div. Ill

in contradiction to the

man

could utter at most a few vague sounds, but was not in possession of language, wholly denies thereby the Christian doctrine of creation and If, on the fall, and consequently of the Salvation in Christ. the other hand the original man, to speak with Heraclitus, possessed a language by c/)uo-i9,i the very possession of that language assumes a logical action which is immediate, regular and pure equally with our respiration. And if from the nature of the case this logical action was originally limited with reference to its content to what man perceived Scriptures declares that the

first

in himself, and, in his inner perceptions, the perception of

God the

stood majestically in the foreground, first

natural action of the

human

evident that

it is

consciousness could

have been no other than the necessary translating into

God

and perception on this ground w^e hold that innate or concreate theology presumes three factors (1) the inworking and manifestation of God Himself in Adam's inner being (2) faith, by which the subject perceives and grasps this inworking and manifestation and (3) the logical action, by which of himself and of necessity he reduces this content in his heart to knoivledge of God, in the form of thought and word.

knowledge

of

effected in

him by God Himself.

of the inner sensibilities

And

:

;

;

From

this it does not follow that

one of these three fac-

With none of these do we overstep the boundary of creation, and all creation as such belongs to the domain of revelation. This does not need to be shown of the first factor. The But this action of God in our being is of itself revelation. same thing is true also of the second factor faith. For what is faith but the sympathetic drawing of the image and what is there (Abbild) to the original (Urbild) revealed in this faith but that God has created us after

tors should fall outside of Revelation.

three

factors

:

;

1 In opposition to the conventional theory of Deraocritus, Heraclitus taught that language was produced in us by the impressions received from the objects in or around us. So Democritus taught a language by ^^crts, he

by

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