The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 7

Biblical Criticism of the Present

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render one a theologian

delusion that these studies

the

insist that these

Day.

;

I

elementary studies be relegated back again to

their proper spheres

;

and that no one of us be longer permitted

to ignore the atrophy of the higher theology which, of direful

necessity, has originated

from the hypertrophy of these lower

studies.

my

For, and this was tionate excrescence

is

second complaint, such a dispropor-

apt to become a constitutional defect, and

present-day biblical criticism has, consequently, not only torn

theology out of

1

its

relation, but has also falsified its character.

When we

could not be otherwise.

his

do not regulate with

a clear consciousness the course of our studies according to the principle of our science, that course of studies governs us,

and subjects us unconsciously ciple,

to the

from which the impulse

course of studies was born. of the Scripture

its

No

to

power of this

accident put

present-day stamp.

It

that other prin-

divergence

the

in

upon the study

was rather a gen-

eral disposition of the spirits which, in all the countries of

Eu-

rope, almost simultaneously raised very similar presumptions

against the Scripture.

The Schleiermachers and Robertson

Smiths, the Kuenens and Colensos, are but the most accurate interpreters,

on Scripture grounds, of

the, spirit

which, as a re-

former of the once current conceptions, has transposed the entire

human

consciousness in every department of

revolution in theology, such as politics

this

and

in social

and domestic

was most sharply declared

S. Scriptura should be

and be given a place will not

do

we have

relations.

;

even the

Encyclopedically

in the claim that the locus

de

removed from the gable of dogmatics,

in the transept of the

to say that this merely implied a

Because, in the

life:

already witnessed in

first place, in

media gratia. change of

It

place.

dogmatics the media gratice are

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