The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 39

Biblical Criticism of the Present

1904.] lighter

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Day.

by setting up Reuss against Kuenen, Schultz against

Reuss, and the collaborators of Lange's Commentaries against

much

responsibility

most conservative have yielded

as the

But what would

claim of criticism.

my own

assume for

Schultz, in order finally to

only so

to the

For the sake

this avail?

of secondary considerations, conservatism merely disparages

whose

theories

one

validity

to

whose spread one

is

no strength

is

in this.

is

bound

to honor,

and principles

prepared to devote his energies.

There

And

at the

therefore

make no appeal

I

bar of conservatism, but ask the encyclopedia of our science,

And when,

disallows.

and

principle of theology here both allows

what the proper

with respect to this radical question,

we

grant that theology, as was shown in the beginning of this article,

having not the creaturcly but the Creator as object,

takes no observations, but, in direct distinction from sciences,

becomes sensible of

theology

it is

object which

This

is

so that in the science of

the active investigator,

the instrument in the ipso,

shown by

it

its results,

outside the boundaries

Spirit, falls.

a position which, from the nature of the case,

domain. abso-

is

our opponents, and therefore

is

embalmed theology,

" the science of God," have proclaimed that the science

of " Religion "

is

queen

;

the face of every one

in

has ceased to be

of the theological

not intended for those, who, after having e.

follows immediately

employ of God the Holy

lutely devoid of strength to

i.

other

not the spirit of the subject but the spirit of the is

that all study, which, as

eo

facts,

all

but which

who

still

I

maintain in

its

entirety

professes with us to be

priests in the temple of theology.

As long

as

we

desire to be theologians,

we may never

raise the

building of our science, save under and in the service of the

Holy

Spirit, since

he

is

God

our only Architect and Master-

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