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Biblical Criticism of the Present

Day.

[July,

tbey hold to a Cognitio Dei Archetypa, but the knowledge

which we derive from the living God like the Ectypic,

e.

i.

system so

in their

is

little

which has originated by the impress of

God's self-consciousness, as to be reached by a slow process

from the emotional

life

Conse-

of the organs of revelation.

God the Holy Ghost and " the family-spirit of the congregation " to be synonymous, quently this tendency was forced to take

and, by the identification of the otherwise distinguished conceptions of

life,

power, and word, to introduce a Babylonian

confusion of speech, which strangely mixes up

and lends a

Romish

all

conceptions,

floating character to every term, and, after the

style,

allowed a continuous

apparent in the church, which at

life;-revelation to

first

become

took a place by the side

of the Scripture, but which even now, with such

men

as Rothe,

has usurped the authority of the Scripture.

The smooth ethicals

Thus

Rabiger. " to

make

(Ezek. they

transition, therefore,

far

the

xlii.

reverenced

still

the

rule

20)

and, even in spite of their starting-point,

;

confessed faith in an absolute chasm between the

still

same

this

duced a

ethicals

Frank, and

a separation between the sacred and the profane

holy and the unholy.

from

from believing to modern

found with Rothe, von der Goetz,

is

more

still

But, and this

is

my

third complaint,

present-day Bible-study has pro-

principle, bitter fruit

with the moderns, and in the place

of the disconnected and grievously degenerated theology has

given us an entirely other and theologia ectypa,

i.

e.

new

science.

appropriate to our consciousness, then,

no right

If there

no communication of truth it

was

said,

in

is

no

a form

you have

to value your perceptions as being essentially higher

than ours

:

they do not differ specifically, but at most only in

degree of development

;

in the religious life

also there

is

a

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