together in one all our broken scattered unities. of thought and life, which shall treasure every tribute of reason, sense, and intuition, and suffuse them with divinest light. Such a theology will be the Christian theology of the future, of which we are, in closing these theological studies, content to say: "Aber eine Theologie brauchen wir, die aus dem lebendigen evangelischen Glauben geboren einem Baume gleicht, der in seiner harmonischen Ausgestaltung Ausdruck ist der Triebkraft, woraus er stammt, einem Baume, dessen Äste und Zweige bis in ihre letzten Ausläufer durchdrungen sind von dem Lebenssafte, der aus der Wurzel des Glaubens emporquillt." Only, as touching this root of faith, let it always be remembered that such living faith as that whereof we have spoken is so rooted in the soil of universal reason as that the fact may never be obscured that no real antithesis exists between the faith that seizes and the reason that sanctions and scientifically verifies; and that theology, progressive in spirit, 1 1 From Glaube und Theologie, S. 26, in Frank's Dogmatische Studien. Erlangen und Leipzig, 1892. upward in trend, and encyclopædic in range, still presses on towards a synthesis of reason and faith — a synthesis which the spiritual reason alone can make that shall be more satisfying and complete than any which has yet been reached. THE END. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS. |