Studies in European Philosophy
Studies in European Philosophy
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His also is the idea that revelation makes known, much earlier, truths that would later be discovered by developed reason, but this idea is not new, being, in fact, derived from the Fathers and Schoolmen ; only, it is given stronger and more pronounced form by Lessing. One must hold it for a somewhat absurd and mistaken idea, for truths dis- coverable by man's own thinking could clearly be no substitute for the historical action of God. Such a mode of thinking was made possible by the tendency ...to put truth or doctrine as thought by men in the place of God's historic self-revealings. Such a fore- shortening of human development might be no ad- vantage, but very much the reverse; and, in any case, truths which man could himself have ultimately found without going beyond the terms of nature have no real claim to be called Revelation. We must account it as of the essence of Revelation that it deals with the secret things not discoverable by man that be- long to God, and relate to Him.
But to Lessing, Revelation had no such intrinsic value, and carried with it no such absolute necessity: it could be dropped whenever it had served its edu- M 178 STUDIES IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His also is the idea that revelation makes known, much earlier, truths that would later be discovered by developed reason, but this idea is not new, being, in fact, derived from the Fathers and Schoolmen ; only, it is given stronger and more pronounced form by Lessing. One must hold it for a somewhat absurd and mistaken idea, for truths dis- coverable by man's own thinking could clearly be no substitute for the historical action of God. Such a mode of thinking was made possible by the tendency ...to put truth or doctrine as thought by men in the place of God's historic self-revealings. Such a fore- shortening of human development might be no ad- vantage, but very much the reverse; and, in any case, truths which man could himself have ultimately found without going beyond the terms of nature have no real claim to be called Revelation. We must account it as of the essence of Revelation that it deals with the secret things not discoverable by man that be- long to God, and relate to Him.
But to Lessing, Revelation had no such intrinsic value, and carried with it no such absolute necessity: it could be dropped whenever it had served its edu- M 178 STUDIES IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY.
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