The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 3
;
Biblical Criticism of the Present
1904.]
God
but
God
and under him the creature
alone,
in so far as
Day.
considered only
is
knowledge of
either instrumentally reveals the
it
411
or for his glory takes this knowledge up into
man
anthropology,
centrum, and the Almighty
the:
is
In
itself. is
con-
sidered only as the interpretation of the religious sense; but in
God
theology is
justified,
himself
the centrum,
is
except in so far as
God
other sciences
man
Again, in
all
own
sake.
him
for his
observes and thoughtfully
and subjects
ology the object
is
active;
man
uses
investigates the object, itself
and no mention of
it
to himself, but in the-
does not stand open, but
it
gives itself to be seen; does not allow itself to be investigated,
but reveals
itself;
and employs thinking man as instrument
Hence
only to cause the knowledge of his Being to radiate. the confession of God, the
Holy
speaks of him also as
Spirit,
'O #60X0709, Ecclcsicc Doctor; " the things of God knoweth no
man, but the things.
Spirit of
God,"
Yea, the deep things of
real theology is essentially
ages and
among
all
" for
God
the Spirit searcheth " (1 Cor.
ii.
10)
;
and
one beautiful building which,
all all
in all
nations, has been reared, according to a
fixed plan, by that Spiritus Architectonicus
whom
we,
who
are called theologians, merely assist as upper servants.
And,
finally,
theology
the motive of need or
is
not born, like other sciences, from
from the impulse
from the impulsion of the Holy
God his
has a purpose to
Being
by us
shall be received
into the furrows of our
as well as
vance it is
;
It is therefore,
end are not
and in
its
first
origin,
it
giving us a theology,
wills that the; ;
minds and
and, having germinated, that of his name.
Spirit. In
He
fulfill.
after knowledge, but
and
that,
hearts,
it
knowledge of
having been cast shall
germinate
shall bear fruit to the
honor
a positive science in which object
to be found, but are posited in ad-
power of development, and
determined by one and the self-same principle,
direction
—the Self-
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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