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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