The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 5

;

Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

1904.]

May

this be tolerated?

As

413

the advocates of this vivisection

God

of the Scripture repeatedly assure us, the knowledge of rises also

from the

and man.

rich life of nature

Consequently

But what would we

theology also deals with the creation.

think of the theologian, who, upon arriving at the point of the

began at once, without any

creation,

energy in the construction of a geology?

his best

posits

self-restraint, to

an Incarnation of the

this reason, preface

Word

;

spend

Theology

our theologians, for

will

Christology with broad physiological and

gynaecological studies of man's conception and embryonic ex-

Human

istence?

diorama

;

personality also charms and attracts by

make

does this

the

man who

its

spends his time and

strength in anatomical, pathological, and physiological studies a theologian?

Must we work through

whole

the

conflict

about materialism, chemically and geologically, microcosmically

and

we

dialectically, before as theologians

are allowed to

count with the soul as existing?

Theology makes confession

of the resurrection of the body

she bound, before rejoicing

in

;

is

her hope, to trace chemically the boundary which in our

body separates the

nutritive

And, not to mention other

from the organic substratum?

points, theology also teaches a

com-

ing catastrophe which shall bring about the end of things

must she analyze by all

spectral analysis the

the planets, in order that she

may

component parts of

speak authoritatively of

a burning of the elements at the Lord's return?

a conception of study ever form a theologian

makes these things almost exclusively

his

?

Would

said that such studies

ests

Will

it

do

who

Could

be

it

were governed by the principle of the-

still

that should claim

he.

such

studies be permit-

ted to style himself a professional theologian?

ology?

Would

to speak of theology,

when

the inter-

the attention subsequent to this

mentary analysis are neglected

ele-

from sheer lack of time?

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