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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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Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's