Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 239

IN

Chap. V]

THE ORGANISM OF SCIENCE?

US a closed mystery,

if

we were not man

215

ourselves and thus

able from ourselves to form our conclusions as

"For who among men knoweth

him?" With man, acphenomenal manifestation may always serve

the spirit of the man, which cordingly, his

to others.

the things of a man, save

us; observation

is

possible;

is

in

and the multiplicity

of objects,

through comparison, may bring you to some clue. But with God taken as object, all this forsakes us. In the most absolute sense.

long as

He

He

is

univocus.

From

yourself (at least so

has not Himself revealed to you the creation

His image) you can conclude nothing concerning neither can you see or hear or perceive Him in any For which reason it is entirely logical conceivable way. that the naturalistic tendency in science has not hesitated to cancel Theology, and that the Free University at Brussels, and after her more than one university in America, have opened no faculty, or "Department," as it is called in America, for Theolog3^ We can also understand that the Theologians who have broken with Special Revelation have refused to walk any longer in the old paths, have abandoned God (6 ^eo?) as object of science, and have declared: We And no fault could can investigate religion, but not Grod. have been found with this, had they faced the consequence of this metamorphosis of the object, and after the demolition of the Theological faculty transferred their study of after

Him;

religion to the Philological facult}'.

Something very different presents hand, of

when

Theology

ectypal

the old definition

is

itself,

finds its object of investigation

knoiviedge of

on the other

readopted, that the science

God; which

definition

m the

revealed,

we hold

our-

but which can be explained only in the following chapter. It is enough here to recall that, according to this representation, God alone knows Himself ("archetypal

selves,

knowledge of God," cognito Dei archetypa), and that there is no created being that can know aught of Him, except He himself reveals something from His self-knowledge and self-consciousness in a form that falls within the compre-

hension of the creature ("ectypal knowledge of God," cog-

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