The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 11
;; :
Biblical Criticism of the Present
1904.]
And
Darwinistic process.
away; the chasm between
fell
common was
sacred and the
419
thus the wall of separation between
and the profane
the holy
Day.
filled
taken as the religions of the nations
in;
idolatries
the
were now
and, together with the
;
sacred writings of other people, the sacred books of Israel
were tested by the touchstone of
all
Our
profane literature.
theologians then dispersed into four different tents of science
There was a science of philology, and henceforth
would take
notice of Semitic literature
and the science of
science,
known
as
and under
ethnical
should henceforth be
subdivision; there was a science of psychology,
its
auspices religious feeling would be investigated
now became
was a
whose task
science of philosophy,
to furnish a philosophy of religion.
it
Thus along-
and over against, sacred theology, there arose an en-
side of,
and separate
tirely other
And
religion.
" theology,"
science,
" science of religion "
announcing
and,
now
is,
that
committed the lamenta-
by the old name of
itself
while expeJling sacred theology, which
at first ignored, altogether
faculty,
no longer of God, but of
the grievance, of the church of Christ
brand-new
ble act of dishonestly
had
was an
there
its
and, finally, there
this
;
religions
priests
its
carries itself as
from the domain of the
though
it
it
state-
were the only lawful
tenant, yea, owner, of the ancient sacred house.
Hence our
complaint against you, who, as our brethren making confession of the is
name
of Jesus, have cooperated to effect this change,
not merely that you have mutilated theology and have al-
lowed
it
to be falsified
;
ment of dogmatics and
but
much more
that,
practical theology,
by the abandon-
you have allowed
the heart and the brain of the sancta thcologia to be removed, in order, as a soulless it
laid
away
See,
my
in the
mummy
embalmed with
spices, to
have
modern sarcophagus.
brethren, in the
name
of the Lord, this pains us
Deze tekst is geautomatiseerd gemaakt en kan nog fouten bevatten. Digibron werkt
voortdurend aan correctie. Klik voor het origineel door naar de pdf. Voor opmerkingen,
vragen, informatie: contact.
Op Digibron -en alle daarin opgenomen content- is het databankrecht van toepassing.
Gebruiksvoorwaarden. Data protection law applies to Digibron and the content of this
database. Terms of use.
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