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History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, Tr. by W.l. Alexander and D.w. Simon. Division 1. 2 Vols.
History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ Tr by Wl Alexander and Dw Simon Division 1 2 Vols Author:Isaak August Dorner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SECTION I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW CHRISTOLOGT LAID BY SCHELLING, HEGEL, SCHLEIERMACHER. I. SCHELLING. To Schelling belongs the undying merit, not merely of having discerned, but also of having taken an important step towards the abolition of the dualism which cleaves in equal measure to systems which take the objective, and those which take the subjective, one-sidedly, for their point of departure (a one-sidedness which was always reflected with peculiar distinctness in Christ- ology, and was, as we have seen, the ultimate cause of the failure of the attempts hitherto made to construct a doctrine of the Person of Christ). He saw that it is not right to conceive subject and object as mutually exclusive and merely opposed to each other, but that the essential unity of the two must be taken as the principle of all philosophy: this essential unity he terms Subject-Object. (Note 15.) This one proposition, clearly laid hold on, and both expressed and carried out with great intellectual vigour, forms the turning-point not merely in philosophy, but also in theology, which, as we have seen above, was dependent on philosophy for the next step in advance which it was necessary for it to take.1 1 In hi "Darlegung des wahren Verhaltuisses der Naturpbilosophie zu der verbesserten Fichte'schen Lehre," 1806, pp. 46, 47, Schelling says: " In relation to that which has immediately gone before, there is stirring a completely new age, and the old cannot comprehend it; nor has it even a distant presentiment how distinct and complete is the antagonism of the new to iteelf. The age of yore has again opened itself; t...« less