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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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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
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