Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 626

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§ 93.

position

[Div. Ill

that that science which arises from natural

this,

is

PART OF AN ORGANISM

and is bound which originates of necessity of the cosmos in the subjective consciousAnd, on the other hand, that science which

data only, subjective as well as objective, asserts, to assert itself, to be the science

from the reflection ness of humanity.

reckons with the fact of re-creation, objective as well as subborn only from the human

jective, asserts that real science is

consciousness that has been restored again to

and therefore cannot recognize ing of the that he

the

not born again of water and

is

normal

abnormal human consciousness.

still

who

its

self,

as such the fruit of the work-

sjDirit

The

rule

cannot see

kingdom of God, applies not merely to the domain Without enlightening, the jurist is not able

theology.

of to

open his eyes to see the Justice of God, neither can the God in history and in the

philologist observe the course of

conscious

life

of the nations.

But whatever view-point one occupies, science, as it develops itself in each of these two circles, is in either case organically one, because the object forms an organic whole,

and the subject in the consciousness of humanity is itself organic, and lives organically in connection with the object. Of course theology falls of itself out of that science which has no other machinery than human data; and since by sin and curse, both objectively and subjectively, a disturbance has been created in the organism, its organic character is bound to exhibit defects, and frequently lead to a non liquet, or even to radical agnosticism. But neither the one nor the other renders science, thus interpreted, either mechanical or atomistic.

The

characteristic of the orgranisra remains rec-

ognizable and dominant. this applies in a

much

And

from the nature

under the power of re-creation, since and possesses the missing links. From of science follows, at the

standpoint those

we do not

who have been

other science

is

of the case

higher sense to that science which

same time,

it

this organic character its

unity.

From our

assert that the subject of theology

enlightened, and

those of the natural

claim that the only subject of

is

includes theology

is

that the subject of all

mind

all science is

(i/ru^^t/co?),

but we

the consciousness

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