Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 610

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THE HOLY SPIRIT AS TEACHER

§ 90.

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working of the Holy Spirit. This is something both different from and greater than his mystical fellowship with the spiritual Without reality which was explained in the former section. more, this mystical fellowship simply referred to the tenor of his inner

But

life.

it is

entirely different

when

the theo-

understands and feels that he is an organ of service, on the ground of which he may confidently expect lasting fruit of his labors so long as he puts himself in the service

loo-ian

Holy Ghost. This is entirely analogous to the differthe plodder on his own responsibility and the between ence of the

man

of science

who

in every other department of study is here service of the Holy Ghost. service all study

What

labors in the service of the truth.

becomes

service of the truth,

is

Without

this sense of

subjectivistic, unhistorical,

and

ar-

rogant, while, on the contrary, the placing of oneself at the service of the truth, i.e. in this instance of the Holy Ghost,

banishes hibiting

all pride,

new

curbs the desire to be interesting by ex-

discoveries, feeds the desire of theological fel-

and thereby sharpens that

lowship,

historic

sense which

impels the theologian to join himself to that great

Holy

Spirit effected in past ages,

which

work

of the

most he may help

at

advance a few paces. This, however, should not be interpreted in the sense that the service of the the truth.

Holy

Spirit is antagonistic to the service of

The domain

of palingenesis

ground, but the outcome of re-creation.

is

no newly created

Hence

the natural

subsumed in it, the natural consciousness also, i.e. those powers, attributes, and laws of being, to which the human

life is

is subject by its nature, in virtue of the creation. seen above, the light of the Holy Spirit operates also

consciousness

As was

in this natural consciousness, and of itself this lower light is If this were not so, adopted and included in the higher. beholding (OeapCa) ; mystical a merely theology would be

but for the reason alone that lectual etica).

and

On

it is so, it

appears as an intel-

rational discipline (disciplina noetica

and diano-

this depends also the old question, which from

the days of Arius has repeated itself in the Church, even whether theology is authorized to draw out by logical this :

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