Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 638

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§ 95.

BOUNDARY OF THEOLOGY

IN SCIENCE

set themselves in hostile array against theology,

[Div. Ill

and

in self-

defence were bent to oppose real theology, suppress it, and in On the other hand, this the end banish it from the arena. in the narrower philosophy made theologians tend to view sense as a hostile phenomenon, and, since they had no real Christian philosophy of their own, to make war against all Since, however, it is impossible to live even in

philosophy.

the Christian world without certain cosmological conceptions, they attempted to supply this want in their dogmatics, and

happened that they furnished not a simple theology with a philosophical seasoning. To bring this theology but a to an end, it is necessary, on the one hand, relation perverted philosophy has an entirely different task that to recognize thus

it

to accomplish than theology, and,

on the other hand, to

dis-

tinguish sharply between Christian and non-Christian philosophy.

Philosophy has an entirely different task. Theology has no other calling than to take up the ectypal knowledge of God, as it is known from its source the Holy Scripture, into the consciousness of re-created humanity and to reproduce Philosophy (now always taken in the narrower sense), on it. the other hand,

is

human knowledge,

called to construct the

which has been brought to light by all the other sciences, into one architectonic whole, and to show how this building arises from one basis. From this it follows, that the need of philosophy is a necessity (^avdyKrj} which arises out of the impulse of the

human

consciousness for unity, and

who stand To say that

importance to those the regeneration.

is

therefore of equal

outside, as to those

who

a Christian

in need of

is

less

are in

only the exhibition of spiritual sloth and lack The more the enlightening restores harof understanding. mony in our consciousness, the stronger must be the awakening of the impulse after an unitous (einheitlich) organic

philosophy

is

knowledge. While, on the other hand, the richer the data at our service, the better the hope of success in this. Philosophy which reckons only with natural data will always vibrate between a pantheistic, deistic and materialistic interpretation, and will never do more than form schools, while Christian

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