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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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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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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