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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... PROLEGOMENA TO DOGMATICS. 1. The Idea of Dogmatics. It is the science which sets forth the contents and connection of the Christian faith. The religions consciousness of the writer must be in harmony with the Christian church, and absolutely determined by the revelation of God in Christ. § 2. Idea of the Prolegomena. The Prolegomena are designed to determine the Contents and Form, the Object and Metho', of Dogmatics. The ideas of Religion and Revelation, and the position and authority of the Scriptures, are here to be investigated. Apologetics is excluded. FIRST PART OF THE PROLEGOMENA. THE CONTENTS OF DOCTRINAL THEOLOGY. CHAPTER 1. OBJECT OF DOOMATICS. (S 3. The Nature and Essence of Religion. God, as the most perfect being, must be personal and have moral attributes. Religion is a rea fellowship with God, as personal, mediated by reverence, love, prayer, etc. § 4. The Connexion between Man's Relation to God and to the World. Both are necessary, but the lower must be subordinated to the higher. 5. The Origin of Religion. It is only to be explained by a positive principle, implanted in human nature, which leads the soul to recognize an author of the world, and to seek for communion with Him. § 6. The Relation of Religion to the Different Functions of the Human Mind. Schleiermacher finds religion in the feeling of absolute dependence, and makes a broad distinction between feeling and knowledge. But the feeling in which religion has its root, is a state of the whole soul, and must contain implicitly knowledge and will. Religion can not be indifferent to truth and falsehood. Where it is sound, it demands the whole life--feeling, thought arid will united. g 7. Relation ofReligion to Philosophy. There can be no relation but that of antagonism! ...
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