The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 9
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This attacks radically the work of the
theological domain.
Holy
Spirit,
church
whose very
adapted to our
and the
life,"
office
human
and by the
to reveal to, in,
it is
knowledge of God
conscious
417
Day.
Biblical Criticism of the Present
190-1.
"
consciousness.
are in Christ, but the
a form which
in
The way,
Holy
is
the truth,
Spirit takes these
from that Christ " to show them unto you "
;
not by impress-
ions on the conscience, or impulses of feeling, neither by the
inoculation of a
lymph of
life
;
by the Word,
but
e.
i.
by the
utterance of the self-consciousness of God, interpreted in the
form of our human consciousness. ical
Again, this error
is
a rad-
subversion of the Divine ordinances, which are as analo-
gous to the realm of nature as of grace.
we have
For, as
series of a " perception,"
the
"
thought," from this perception a and from that thought the " word " so we have, also, the series ;
of a " blade,"
an " ear "
and
a " grain of wheat," or, if
the series of " inflammable material," " smoke,"
What do you sow ? sow blades of in
And how do you
corn, or can
may
order that you
you make
quicken the
fire
life
the.
the ordinance of
God
;
Indeed
?
blade,
you must
and, to ignite
In the same
way
addressed to you, from which to germinate,
fire, it
in spiritual things, not to begin with
unconscious perception, but to have the clearly conscious
first
like,
Can you
?
with smoke
of
needs have the perfectly ripe grain of wheat
you need a glowing spark or flame.
and
ignite fire
you
" flame."
Word
Word
the perception shall be the
and from which perception the thought
ripen until at last from the
Word
born within you. In spite of
its
a
is
an
word
of your
own
shall
shall
be
praiseworthy efforts to maintain
the confession of the church, the ethical tendency, under the
pressure of the same philosophical revolution-principle, from
which the present-day
biblical criticism
borrows
has altogether changed the face of theology. confess a
God who
is
its
impulse,
With us they
concious of himself, and consequently
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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