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Biblical Criticism of the Present
Day.
[July,
considerate judgment but without the least uncertainty, express,
—that
the biblical criticism of the present day
is
structive of the best interests of the church of the living
for the -reason that \
it
we de-
God,
revokes her theology, robs her of the
Give
Bible, and destroys her liberty in Christ.
me your
atten-
tion as, in the development of these three propositions, I shall
show
that biblical criticism as
almost every
at
Protestant
it
prosecuted in our times
is
on the continent of
university
Europe, must result in the utter destruction of theology; that it
cannot continue without robbing the church of the Holy
Scriptures; and that
it
I
bow and
name of
whose church
for the welfare of
my word
be in this the inspirer of
thoughts
Lord Jehovah,
the
the Strength of our
the
I plead,
and the judge of
while in this sacred task, also,
;
in-
And may He, before whose glory
clericalism.
reverently
in surrendering her, utterly
arms of the most unbearable, because
defenseless, into the tellectual,
must end
Rock
our help
my
in the
is
of our strength, and
life. I.
Biblical criticism of the present
day tears the parts of the-
ology out of their relation, violates tutes for
it
something which
fold complaint in which
hand, as
no theology.
I treat
the
first
Such
and is
substi-
the three-
part of the subject in
undertake to prove the proposition that present-day
I
biblical criticism
Theology
is
must end
in the destruction of theology.
a science which,
and psychology, this
is
character,
its
if it is
analogous to philosophy
distinguished from
is
fundamental point, that
it
all
other sciences by
does not occupy
itself
with the
knowledge of the creature, but of the Creator hence of a God ;
who,
as
creator,
creaturely.
The
cannot
be
included
in
the range of the
object of theology, therefore,
God and something
besides which
is
is
God.
Not
coordinated with him;
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's