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§ lOG.

THE PERIOD OF RESURRECTION

[Div. Ill

point of support too one-sidedly in the mystical life of the emotions, and thus it has deemed itself able to dispense with

the objective foundation in the Word of God and in the instituted Church. By virtue of its character, therefore, it occupied no definite view-point. Chameleon-like, it has lent itself to all kinds of divisions into groups

But

it

has never denied

its

and individual

variations.

general feature, of feeling stronger

in its philosophical premises than in historic theology, it

has preferred to turn

itself irenically to

the

left,

and so

while

it

shrank from confessional theology as from an unwelcome It has also prosecuted no doubt the study of apparition. history, especially history of dogma, but ever with this purviz. to dissolve it, in order presently, by the pose in view aid of the distinction between kernel and form, to put its This is the case with philosophical thought into the dogma. of the Vermitcircles other in while intellectual, the more and inemotional the between dualism the telungstheologie

—

open a breach, that the transition to the school of Ritschl, which has anathematized every meta-

tellectual life has

come

physical conception,

is

to so

However widely Vermittelungstheologie may be,

already achieved.

spread the influence of this even in Scotland and in America, now that she more and more deserts her objective point of support in the Holy Scripture, sets herself with ever greater hostility against the

Confessional churches, and continues ever more boldly her of pulverizing Christian truth, she can no longer

method

be a theology in the real sense of the word, but turns of necessity into a philosophical and theosophical mysticism. However much she may assert that she still holds fast to Christ,

it

is

nothing but self-deception.

As

history slips

the self-testimony of the Christ, Christ

away from her and becomes to her more and more a mere name without a concrete stamp of its own, and consequently is nothing but the clothing of a religious idea, just such as Modernism wills it. It is entirely diiferent, on the other hand, with confessional theology, such as the Lutheran, Reformed, and Romish theologies, which are beginning to give more frequent signs of life.

In

its

confessional type

it

continues to bear a concrete

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