Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 295

Chap.

THE FRUIT OF EEVELATION

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And

Himself, for Himself, and to Himself? the third factor, viz. the knowledge which logical action,

what expresses

is

itself in this

(abbildliche) working in us of that Logos,

and

itself is

God?

The whole man,

271 concerning

the result of the

but the reflective

which

is

in

God

therefore, in his exist-

communion with, and knowledge of, God, is originally but one rich revelation of God to man. At a later period revelation may also come to him from without but it begins by being in him, as an immediate result of his creation. This innate or connate theology was destined to be enriched by acquired (acquisita) theology. Not in the sense of addition, as though this increated knowledge would gradually increase by such and such a per cent. Innate theology was rather a completed whole by itself. It constituted all that knowledge of God, which was to be obtained from the immediate communion of God with the individual soul. It completed that knowledge of God, whose principium lies in the mystery of the emotions. But since the creation did not ence, in his relation to God, in his

his

;

human race, and of a cosmos as the basis of this entire human race, a revelation of God was also necessary in that cosmos and in that organic unit of humanity and since the individual soul stands in organic relation to humanity and to the cosmos, its knowledge of God had to include both these other spheres of revelation. Even though you conceive a development apart from sin, acquired theology would of itself have been joined to innate theology, as soon as man entered into conscious relation to the cosmos and humanity as an organic unit. Not for the sake of filling out what was incomplete, but of enriching the knowledge complete in itself with the revelation in both these other spheres. Thus, for instance, to enlarge upon this with a single word, the idea of God's Omnipotence, Wisdom, etc., would never have entered into the consciousness of the soul from the cosmos nor from the universal human life. These ideas lie in innate theology, and are given in the idea of Grod as such. Nevertheless the significance and tendency of these ideas are only consist of that single soul but of a

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