Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 346

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322

§ 64.

DEFORMATIONS OF THEOLOGY

[Div. Ill

mystic antithesis springs from the tendency to let being triumph over consciousness, and, while it apparently antagonizes barren intellectualism, in reality it opposes every modification which by virtue of religion must be brought about in our world of thought. It is said that our so-called

modern

ethical tendency sets no store

by conceptions

the nature of the case this is not so.

from along without thought; Avithout a

human

life is

conceivable

general conceptions

who

;

;

life

No

; but one can get

with consciousness no

every one goes out from certain

and, voluntarily or otherwise, in those

live in higher spheres those general conceptions

system,

i.e.

form a

they stand in a certain relation to each other.

As an

actual fact, therefore, the conflict against "barren intellectualism " banishes all influence of revelation or even

of religion

from the development of our world of thought

while eventually the world of thought, which from natural reason has become common property, is permitted to assert it-

and self-evident. With these men it is ever the old conflict between the primacy of the consciousness and of the will, while our entire higher life is subsumed by them under the will. With the deformations of theology, however, we need not take this into account; since all such efforts end in an entire falsification of the conception of theology, and as such belong to our former paragraph. The sceptics, on the other hand, whom we here speak of, occupy the selfsame view-point with us of special revelation; with us they feel the need of holding dogma in honor, and readily agree that no church can get along without conself as unassailable

fessional standards

;

only, to all these confes"sions together

The truth is they attribute nothing but a relative value. not contained in one confession, nor in all the confessions taken together; to push propaganda, therefore, of one con-

Going is entirely void of motive. from one church to another, except for the sake of marriage And the poor or of national interests, has no significance. martyrs who faced death for the sake of their convictions, died like naive victims of a confessional mistake. If thus in this confessional scepticism the energy of con-

fession above another

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