Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 371
Chap.BY PRIXCIPIUMII]This has made3-47customary to seek the proper principium Holy Scripture, by which was meant of course simply the material principium of knowing (principium cognoscendi materiale). Tlie knowledge of God, which God Himself had communicated by ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 372
348AtREPUESENTATIONS CONCERNING§68.HIcompelled the understanding to adapt andthistirst[Div.accommodateitself tothe authorit}- of the Holy Scripture,maintained a high position. But, in the long run, roles were to b ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 373
Chap.THE OPERATION OF THIS PKINX'IITUMII]349In the Holy Scripture and notldny else, another group asserts that the apocryphal books as well, and tradition, yea, the papal inspiration also, claim our attention affirms:;thosewhomystical ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 374
350§68.REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING[Div. Illthe mysticism of the emotions, or of a papal infallibility.Theprophet, the mystic, and the bishop ofsinners,andRomeare allof each of these three it is affirmed, not thatco ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 375
Chap.II]THE OPERATION OF THIS FRINCIPIUM351spired should be able to speak just like the prophets of old, and the witness of one should confirm the witness of another. You never receive from Such, however, is not the case. these mystics a clear communication of what has ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 376
352§ G8.llErilESENTATIONS COXCEKNINGand religion accordinglifeto his orders.[l):v. IllThis, then,isnolonger the theory of an individual, internal light in every child of God, but the representation that prophetic inspira- ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 377
THE OPERATION OF THIS PRINCIPIUMCiiAP. II]US thatGodthe Lord has also revealed His divine knowledgefor the sinner in an organicway.shining of God's Spirit in theHence inspirationhumannoisin-spirit that endl ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 378
354§ 68.REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING[Div. Illbe placed in a line with the ever abnormal inspiration.In-spiration, therefore, is here taken in connection with all sortsHolyof otlier operations of theSpirit, asporal, organic proces ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 379
Chap.THE OPERATION OF THIS PRINCIPIUMII]355applying and expository operations of the Holy Spirit are withdrawn from the individual life and concentrated in thatwhichWeis official.passby the smalldifferences from each of these t ...
Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 380
;356§69.betweenT]IE KP:LATI0N[Div. Illman^ and that, too., in a special manner. This, and nothing else, is the principium, from which knowledge of God comes to us sinners, and from which also theology That besides this as a science draws its vital power. ...