The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 12
Biblical Criticism of the Present
420 it
Day.
[July,
grieves us that, with your leave, the profane "science of
religion " has been allowed to ascend the throne of the sancta
and that as willing
theologia,
priests
you
offer
services
it the;
of your splendid talents, and as willing choir-boys bring to
For
the incense of your homage.
God
the living
them is
to suffer loss.
If,
this
indeed, you cannot destroy
And
this
According to the Lord's ordinance, a theology
being done.
She cannot
belongs to the church in the earth. it.
makes the churches of
as churches, you can injure their well-being.
Where
it
she
deprived of
is
without
live
she must languish.
it
She needs
a theology that she might grasp the more hidden sense of God's
Word;
might discover the deflection of the
that she
line of
error; to protect the medical art of the soul from passing into
a spiritual quackery
and as apologete that
she
and be
to plead for
command moral
able, to
The church needs
it.
might be inwardly
unlearned it
to exhibit the reasonableness of her faith
;
and kept from
edified,
In brief, she needs a theology which, while
alike.
edge of sacred things on the part of the
and past,
it
upon one
who do
not
who
ual noblemen, is
does not stand
her
thought into the chan-
and which, by virtue of that
;
move
in but purer
life
origin, trains
as exalted creatures in
phere above the people, but dwell
what
laity,
which, joined to her
root;
the course of former
directs
nels of our days
forth
from the knowl-
but in the service of the Holy Spirit, blooms
it,
flourishes with
ministers
error,
confidence from the learned and
differs not specifically, but only gradually,
outside of
a theology
among them
and
finer
an atmos-
as their spirit-
forms cause to shine
and that of her children.
withhold from the churches, you vivisectors.
And
this
By your
you
pres-
ent-day studies of the Scriptures, you cause the church to be
deprived of
it.
You
offer her a science
tion with her confession,
which has no connec-
and you send her pastors who, how-
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's