Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 376

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§ G8.

llErilESENTATIONS COXCEKNING

and religion according

life

to his orders.

[l):v. Ill

This, then,

is

no

longer the theory of an individual, internal light in every child of God, but the representation that prophetic inspira-

an extraordinary instrument, was not merely tempoand local, but is ever continuous. With this conception from the Holy Scriptures are always assumed as existent only the temporal drawn and material is Scriptures those and local application of what was revealed in those Scriptures

tion, as ral

;

;

is

vindicated for the mystical fanatic.

itself

The tendency

indeed again and again to soar paracletically above the

revelation of the Scriptures, and Montanistically to off

but this

;

reveals

dissolution. entire,

spired

is

As soon

as the break with

the spiritual authority of is

wander

almost always the sure sign of approaching Scripture

the

what was mystically

is

in-

ended.

They who seek the proximate cause (principium proximum) exclusively in the Holy Scriptures, do not deny the mystical inworkings of the Holy Spirit upon individuals, but maintain that this mystical inworking as such never leads to knowledge of God, and therefore can only be added by way of explanation and application to the knowledge of God obtained else-

With this they do not deny, that an inspiration where. which brings knowledge of God is possible, but they assert that this is not general but exceptional, and is not primarily for the benefit of individuals but organically for the good of the whole. It remains to them therefore an open question, whether God the Lord could have followed the mystic individual way of communicating the knowledge of Himself but it is certain that God did not take this way, and ;

that His not taking this atomistic

way

is

in close

harmony

with the entire method of knowledge in our human race. Our race does not know by adding together what is known

hy

A + B + C, but knows organically.

There

is

a process in

This knowledge developing itself in process is the common property of all, and each one takes part in this treasure according to the measure of his susceptibility.

this

knowledge.

This organic conception of our human knowledge lies, therefore, in the very creation of our race, and it does not surprise

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