Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 250

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§ 55.

reference

Church

to

THE INFLUENCE OF PALINGENESIS the magistracy, that

it

[Div. II

shoukl not ask the

to interpret God's ordinances regarding the duties

of its life, but that the magistrates shoukl study them out independently for themselves from nature and from the word of God. In this way homage was paid to the prin-

every one who shares this palingenesis should independent judgment in all his own affairs. If this principle, which is the only true one, were applied to all the sciences, it would readily be seen that Theology is by no means called upon to arbitrate in every domain of science while, on the other hand, also, it would be seen that a twofold study must develop itself of all the sciences, one, by those who must deny palingenesis, and the other by those who must reckon with it. This, however, does not take away the fact, that the other ciple that

exercise

;

must leave Theology the task of investigating palinFor this is its appointed task. Theology alone is If there were no palingenesis, there would called to do this. be no other than a natural knowledge of God, which belongs in the Philological faculty to the philosophical, and more especially to the psychological and ontological, sciences. Since, on the contrary, palingenesis has come in as an universal phenomenon, dominating all things, a faculty of its own had to be created for Theology, and it is the task of Theology to take the four above-mentioned phenomena as It must examthe object of its independent investigation. sciences genesis.

ine (1) inspiration, as the introductory fact to psychical palingenesis (2) the psychical palingenesis itself (3) the manifestation that operates introductory to the cosmical pal:

;

;

and (4) the cosmical palingenesis. Later on it shown why this entire study must be drawn from the Holy Scriptures as the principium of Theology, and how ingenesis

;

will be

it

owes

its

present, let

unity just to this it suffice

conclude from

it

that

common

For the a fact, and

principium.

we simply assume

this as

that the investigation here to be instituted

special, well-defined ground, and that the other faculmust leave this investigation to Theology. And as, in virtue of the mutual relations of the sciences, one adopts

forms a ties

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