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THE PERIOD OF RESURRECTION

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the pantheistic starting-point over against Christian

— even though

its first

ardor

is

now

Theism

followed by a period of

exhaustion. greatest step in advance effected by this consisted in

The

the fact that

Kant investigated the thinking

and

subject,

thereby gave rise to a riper development of the organic conception of science.

The

principle

and method

of science

had

been made an object of study before, but in the sense in which at present we recognize an organic whole of science it

was

still

mation. in his

entirely

unknown, even

in the

days of the Refor-

At that time men still produced piece-work, each own domain, and effected certain transitions at the

boundaries by the construction of temporary bridges

;

but

the subject, as the organic central point from which went forth the whole activity of science as in so

many beams

of

one light-centre, was not yet apprehended. Hence the earlier theology, however richly furnished within its own domain,

makes an impression which is only in part truly scientific. Before Kant, theology had as little awakened to a clear consciousness of itself as any other science, and much less had the position of theology in the organism of science been

However much Kant and

made

clear.

and followers the honor is theirs

his contemporaries

intended injury to the Christian religion, of having imparted the impetus which has enabled theology to look more satisfactorily into the deepest problems that face Schleiermacher has unquestionably exerted the most it.

preponderant influence upon this resurrection of theology. This, apart from his titanic spirit, is owing more especially to the fact that in Schleiermacher the mystic-pietistic power of the life of the emotions entered into so beautiful and harmonious a union with the new evolution of Philosophy. points his foot may have slipped, and in however dangerous a manner he cut himself loose from objective Revelation, Schleiermacher was nevertheless the first theologian in the higher scientific sense, since he was the first to examine theology as a whole, and to determine in That the rehis way her position in the organism of science. sult of his work has nevertheless been more destructive than

At however many

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