Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 281

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Chap.

ECTYPAL THEOLOGY

§ 60.

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Ectypal Theology the Fruit of Revelation

§ 60.

The ectype does not

arise unless there is a material that

can receive the impression of the archetype, this material has taken place.

and the act of And though

impressing it on in the preceding section it was maintained that the ectypal knowledge of God did not arise from our observation of God but from self-communication on the part of God, and consequently bears a dependent character, we do not assert, that for the acquisition of this knowledge of God the nature

and disposition

of the subject are indifferent.

On

the con-

assumes (1) one who reveals Himself; Himself; and (3) the possibility reveals whom he one to (2) In revelation, these two. between relation of the required who is to man), especially sinful therefore, man (and more was done If, as receive it, must be taken into account. trary, all revelation

formerly, self

we

exclusively consider

and that which

He

Him who

reveals

/

Him-

reveals, this revelation lies outside

the actual perception and assimilation are wanting and the whole end of revelation is lost. In the second of

man

;

do to interpret revelation as an announcecommunication of the one subject to the other subject, without taking due account of the fact that the subject God created the subject man, and that God wholly maintains and governs man from moment to moment the result of which is, that He does not follow a way of communication that happens accidentally to be present, but that He Himself lays out the way of communication in keeping with His purpose. In the third place, it must be kept in view that the revelation of God is not an act of a single moment, but a continuous process, which extends itself across the ages, and in this extension does not purposelessly swing back and

place, it will not

ment

or

;

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but propels itself according to the motive contained in its idea, according to the nature of its successive content, and according: to the nature of the bed which its stream

forth,

In the fourth place, this revelation may not be interpreted as an atoraistical self-communication of God to the several indivldnah, but must be taken as a reve-

must form

for itself.

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