Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 696

672 she could

THE PERIOD OF RESURRECTION

§ 106.

make

[Div. Ill

life of the Church But when theology did

the mystical and practical

express itself iu conscious action.

none of these three, but squandered her time in a skirmish, which scarcely touched upon the first antithesis, which went outside of the mysteries of the faith, and had no connection with the mystical-practical life of believers, she herself threw her once brilliant crown down into the dust, and the opponent could not be censured for speaking of theology as an antiquity no longer actual. ^ 106.

The Period of Resurrection

The nineteenth century is far superior to the eighteenth, not merely in a cosmical, but also in the religious sense. Here also action effected reaction. The bent-down spring rebounded at

last.

And

it

will not readily be denied, that in

our nineteenth century a mystical-religious movement has operated on the spirit, which may be far from comparable to the activity of the Reformation, but which, leaving out of account the Reformation period, seeks to rival

it

in recent

belong to the order In spite of the day, in Europe as well as in America. of its one-sidedness. Perfectionism has gained a mighty fol-

history.

Revivals of

all sorts of tenets

Methodist and Baptist churches have developed an would have been inconceivable in the eighwhich activity teenth century, and which affords its masterpiece in the Salvation Array. Missions have assumed such wide proportions, that now they have attained a universal, historical significance. New interests have been awakened in religious and churchly questions, which make manifest how different a spirit had come to the word. Even negative tendencies have found And, it advisable, in their way, to sing the praises of religion. however unfavorably one may judge of Mormonism, Spiritism, etc., it can scarcely be denied that their rise and temporary success would not have been possible, if the problem of religion had not taken a powerful hold upon the general mind.

lowing.

If then, after the

shameful defeat of theology in the period we may affirm an un-

of the " Illumination " ( Aufkliirung),

deniable resurrection of theology in the nineteenth century,

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