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Biblical Criticism of the Present
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(who
Rothe, and his ethical friends
ethically
[July*
may
stand be-
neath the apostles), are perfectly well capable, with these imperfect pieces
hand, to attain unto " an errorless knowledge
-in
Thus Rothe
of the truth."
theory which rendered
of the apostles, as soon as genial
way
In this
allies.
upon the
readily turns his back
necessary to abandon the infallibility
it
touched himself and his con-
it
thelematic imperfection and noetic
accuracy are taken to be compatible with each other, and the of speech of the less " unconscious " people
common methods
resumes with the ethical scholars again
we
Hence, however much
its
original right.
appreciate in the ethical theo-
logians that struggling with both hands to oppose the irresist-
impulsive force of the principle, which, as a serpent fos-
ible
tered in their bosom, attacks their faith at the very heart
;
yet
this question of the theopneusty, their sys-
with reference to
tem may not be characterized
harshly than as a cloudy
less
mingling of philosophical theories with gnostic aspirations, covered by the content of a faith-consciousness which belongs to
Rome, and not
against
it,
that
by
to us
and that complaint must be entered
;
this threefold
motive
destruction of the inspiration of the Scripture-inspiration,
non
sit,"
that
old
all
:
" Sit
it still
tit
more
And
dogma
Of
the
sit
aut
clearly,
by the abandonment of the
result in nothing but self-deception
classify us in the corpus
church
Scripture.
Rothe himself has said
effort to save inspiration
guidance of others.
we
Holy
and the modern Lipsius expressed
dogma could
the
leads to the absolute
it
therefore,
and mis-
however much they may
virorum obscurorum, and try to make
ridiculous by the " automatcn-parodie,"
hold fast inexorably to the ancient and unweakened theop-
neusty
;
in
our historical simplicity,
cational backwardness,
main
still
ethically imperfect, an
ting without error
what
or, if
you
will, in
our edu-
believing that, even though he re-
embassador
is
capable of transmit-
his sovereign inspires
him
with.
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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