The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 4

;

412

Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

As Thomas

revealing God.

ad Deum ducct"; own divines " A :

rod Seov If,

puts

it,

"Deo docetur

or, better still, in the

theologian

[July,

Deum

docet,

words of one of our

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is

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therefore, distinction

of theology which touch

made between

is

the departments

heart and those which occupy a

its

subordinate place, the division into principal and subordinate

departments

is

determined by the shorter or farther distance

of these departments t

•

j v

the heart of theology

from

this

Hence

theological centrum.

dogmatics, and those lying farthest off

is

are the critical-literary studies, and, in fixed constellation with these, exegesis, pastoral theology,

A

about the centrum.

just

and church history round

demands

proportion

that

the

strength of the best theologians and the best powers of most theologians be devoted to this central, spiritual labor, and that only a part of the strength

and a proportionally small part

of time be devoted to the purely literary. relation of the parts as

virtue of her principle, this relation is

criticism

makes

;

in

that

its

lies

the normal

determined encyclopedically, in

by the nature of theology

itself.

And

wholly torn apart by the present-day biblical

the

which

economy is

of theology

lies

upturns

it

subordinate principal

energies to that which

draws

is

it

Thus

;

order

all

devotes the finest

nearer the circumference

;

with-

best heads and best hours from the central study of

theology, and thus occasions the birth of a monstrous hydrocephal.

Or, to express the same in a nobler figure,

regal banquet at which

all

it

is

like a

the threads of the table linens have

been numbered, and every spot and scratch on the golden goblets have most carefully been recorded; while, to the mortification of the guests, the sparkling

wine

is

wanting.

thought is worked out more fully by the author in his [ Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Tr.] 1

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