Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 364

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§ 66.

SACKED THEOLOGY

[Div. Ill

from the Church, but rather from without comes the frequent impetus, which stimulates and necessitates spiritual thought,

and yet the thinking born from this is not aphoristic, but and organically coherent. And in the third place this action of the Holy Spirit is evident from the prological

ductiveness of theology in times

when

Spirit in the Churcli are powerful,

the operations of the

and from the poverty

and meagreness which are seen in contrast, as soon as those operations of the Spirit withdraw themselves from the Church. Subjectively this can be expressed by saying that theology has flourished only at the times when theologians

have continued in prayer, and in prayer have sought the communion of the Holy Spirit, and that on the other hand it loses its leaf and begins its winter sleep when ambition for learning silences prayer in the breast of theologians.

and to the and its method as well (in virtue of the leading of the Holy Spirit as Doctor ecclesiae'), the peculiar character of theology demands that its peculiarity shall be characterized also by its title of Sacred In this sense, both with reference to

extent in which

Theology.

it

concerns

its

its object,

subject,

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