Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 338

314

same

§ 63.

is

FALSIFICATIONS OF

true with reference to the factor of thought.

Schleiermacher, thought absolute sense,

springs

[Div. Ill

from

is

With

the result of being, not in the

but of being in man and of that which being of man. Actually, therefore,

this

human

nature alone and its phenomena are real for Schleiermacher; from this nature only you come to God as to its projection; and thought exercises so little independent power, that the unconscious senses, feelings and perceptions not only govern our entire thought, but even repress it, and already prepare the primacy of the will of later date. With this, however, Schleiermacher as a theologian had passed the handle entirely out of his hands. It is selfevident, that the autonomic study of human nature held the mastery also over the future of theology. If that physiological and psj'chological study should lead to materialistic results, the whole of Schleiermacher's religion would fall away. Or, where the result was less disappointing, yet so far as the method is concerned, the physiological factor was bound to dominate entirely the psychological factor, and this would also include everything that relates to religion under the

power of the naturalistic view. In this wise the Christian bound to be reduced to the product of all pre-

religion was

ceding religious development; that preceding religious development could at length be nothing more than the necessary

development

of

a

psychological peculiarity; that psycho-

logical peculiarity, in turn,

must be the

result of the fun-

damental data in our human nature; that human nature could be nothing else than the product of the unbroken development of organic nature that organic nature could not differ essentially from the inorganic nature; so that finally, everything that is high and holy in the Christian domain has been brought under the power of the evolution theory, and the theologian has to be informed by the naturalist where to look for the origin of the object of his ;

science.

Thus, in both schools, everything that had so far been the name of theology was in principle destroj^'ed. There were no longer two, God and man, the former of whom

known by

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