Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 339

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Chap.

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THE COXCEmON OF THEOLOGY

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imparted knowledge of Himself to

was, in fact, nothing else but man, in to the speculative school,

latter;

tlie

there

alone, according

"the Ever-Immanent Spirit" (der

ewigimmanente Geist) came

who

whom

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to consciousness of himself;

and

according to the subjective-empiric school, experienced

subjective perceptions, from which he formed for himself subjective representations of a religious character. Neither in one school nor in the other was there any more question of an extrahuman God, nor room for a theology which should be

able to introduce actual knowledo-e of that

general

human

Tlieology,

God

into the

The abandonment of the name substitution in its room of the name of

consciousness.

and the

was nothing but the honest consequence of the fundamentally atheistic point of view which was held. Is atheistic too strong a word in this connection? It is, when by atheism we understand the denial of the spirit and Science of Religion^

perceptions of the infinite; but not,

when we

interpret

it

God, who has made Himself known to us as God. Though both schools held to the name of God, they both afterward denied that we have the right to reckon with the reality of the living God, as a personal, self-conscious Being, who from that self-consciousness reveals Himself to us. And from that time on, the object that engaged the investigator in this domain was no longer the reality Qocl^ but religion. With reference to the eternal Being everything had become problematic; the religious phenomenon was the only certain thing. There revealed itself in human nature and in hisas the refusal longer to recognize the living

known by the name of reliwas possible to trace and to study the historic and ethnologic development of this factor; psychologically, also, an explanation of this religious phenomenon could be sought and in this perhaps at length sufficient ground could be found to assume a general agent as cause of this phenomenon; but no venture could be made outside of this phenomenal circle. The vovjjLevov remained problematic. That nevertheless most students shrank from the immediate adoption of this radical transition, had a threefold

tory a mighty factor, which was gion.

It

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