Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 698

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§ 106.

THE PERIOD OF RESURRECTION

[Div. Ill

up the content of Revelation also into the thinking consciousness, and from this to reproduce it, would readily

to take

have passed into entire forgetfulness. And it is Philosophy which has been used by the King of the Church as a means of discipline to force His redeemed once again to enter upon that sacred vocation.

was only when the Christian Church had

It

lost

her

authority completely and theology lay in the sand as a conquered hero, that in Kant and his epigones the men arose

who, anew and more radically than their predecessors, resumed the ancient conflict of the Greek-Roman Philosophy against the Christian religion, which had been broken off rather than decided in principles

demanded

third century.

the

this.

Where two

The

logic of

contrary principles

it is of no avail that abandoned after the manner of Constantine, or that, as was done in the Middle Ages and in the first period of the Reformation, it is suspended and limited by the preponderance of churchly authority.

come

to stand over against each other,

the conflict between

them

is

Such contrary

principles but await the first favorable oppor-

tunity to take

new

positions from both sides,

their inevitable conflict, if possible, still tesius,

at a

Spinoza and Locke began

somewhat

earlier date,

more

this conflict

and

to continue

radically.

Car-

from their side

but without making the Christian

And religion feel that it was a conflict of life and death. " " (Aufklarung) had depleted Illumination only when the the Christian religion entirely of her honor, did Philosophy obtain the chance to come forward in full armor. For though

cannot be denied, that with such men as Kant and Fichte, and especially Schelling, and in part also with Hegel, Philosophy did by no means tread the Christian religion under foot, but rather tried in its way to restore the honor of the Christian mysteries, which the Church had shamefully abandoned yet it would but betray color-blindness if we refused to recognize how the gigantic development of modern Philosophy has revived most radically the ancient and necessary conflict between the unregenerate consciousness and the principium of palingenesis, and with ever greater precision places

it

;

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