Sentences with phrase «in dogmatic theology»

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Those of us who continue to fight for orthodoxy, in dogmatic as well as moral theology, miss those days when there was a clear beacon shining from across the Tiber.

In my review, I argued that the needs of apologetics ought not drive the development of dogmatic theology.

That would seem to imply that theology for a person of faith is more speculative than dogmatic, certainly not the dogmatic absolutism that closes minds and often hearts that we see in so many who profess faith.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

It was recognized that the Church needed to develop a dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on thedogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on theDogmatic Constitution on the Church.

There is a sense in which the intention of early biblical criticism was an effort to restore a «biblical theology» in which the Scriptures were freed from their dogmatic imprisonment.

What is the relevance of dogmatic theology inherited from our benefactors in Europe?

Of course, we are both engaging in speculative interpretation / theology, not dogmatic theology; so neither of our opinions should pose a challenge to anyone's faith.

Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of the day.

Apologetics should change and adapt in response to the questions of the audience and the particular themes of the age, but dogmatic theology is deliberately distinguished from apologetics in its concern for timeless truths.

The document is not a dissertation in dogmatic or moral theology on marriage and the family, although it reflects the thought of the Church on the subject.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

Of course, there are new questions in dogmatic and moral theology, which have been discussed more openly at and after the Council and which have not yet been solved, among them questions of great importance also for the practical life.

He published the original version of The Identity of Jesus Christ: The Hermeneutical Bases of Dogmatic Theology in a Presbyterian adult education magazine called Crossroads in 1967, but it did not appear in book form until 1975 (Fortress), the year after he published The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth - Century Hermeneutics (Yale University Press, 1974).

Ultimately, then, God would be conceived as Other and as Holy; perhaps as the «normative» Judeo - Christian - Islamic tradition has asserted all along in its much maligned dogmatic theology; while leaving mystical assertions of identity and oneness suspect.

Isaak August Dorner, «On the Proper Version of the Dogmatic Concept of the Immutability of God,» in God and Incarnation in Mid-Nineteenth Century German Theology, edited and translated by Claude Welce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

Sister Sara Butler, M.S.B.T., is professor emerita of dogmatic theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois.

The technical disciplines taught in universities and seminaries - technical dogmatics, ethics, spirituality, apologetics, missiology, historical theology, and so forth - find their value as they lead to richer biblical interpretation.

Scholars in other fields, such as dogmatic theology, are starting to read Burridge and are finding his work illuminating.

That being said, the renewal of interest ought not to be overstated: much doctrinal theology in English remains preoccupied with keeping up a conversation with other fields of inquiry (often literary and cultural theory) and is so eager to do so that it often neglects the descriptive or dogmatic tasks of systematics.

Judgment as to whether Barth's theology adequately interprets the moral demand in the Christian life must await the completion of his Church Dogmatics.

This initially occurs in Descartes and Spinoza, but it becomes far more comprehensive in Schelling and Hegel, and so much so that the whole body of dogmatic theology undergoes a metamorphosis into pure philosophical thinking in Hegel's system.

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Post-conciliar theology makes it clear that many new questions still await an answer, that many opinions in both dogmatic and moral theology must again be discussed and even revised, including matters which are important for the Christian life.

In the wake of the earlier volumes of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics and a 1967 article by Karl Rahner, serious Western theology has rediscovered — at least momentarily — the centrality of the doctrine of Trinity.

By the late 17th centuries theologians were producing manuals in dogmatic, moral and pastoral theology.

To take an illustration which is particularly apt, as it does not involve any of the central problems of dogmatic theology, in Matt.

The dogmatic method in theology is very useful in proclaiming the faith to those who already (or almost) believe it; but in a global society, we shall have to take up the apologetic method again.

Theology as an isolated discipline which is structured primarily or solely in reference to biblical and traditional dogmatic themes will decline in importance.

If, as I recently argued in the Century («The Suffering God: The Rise of a New Orthodoxy,» April 16), belief in the suffering of God is the most basic revolutionary development of 20th - century theology, then Paul Tillich and others were wrong in contending that, in his movement from Romans to the Dogmatics, Barth went from a revolutionary to a conservative stance.

Catholics in the last fifty years or so have almost completely ceased to do dogmatic theology.

Andrew Dickson White, founding president of Cornell, for instance, published A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) in which he projected into the past a supposed opposition of dogmatic Christianity to scientific progress.

In times past, various ecumenical seminars have been held, growing mostly out of Kung's ecumenical interests — his seminar with Jürgen Moltmann on «Contemporary Christology,» one with Heiko Oberman on «The Concept of Justification in Luther and the Council of Trent,» and another with Eberhard Jungel on «Natural Theology in Barth's Church Dogmatics.&raquIn times past, various ecumenical seminars have been held, growing mostly out of Kung's ecumenical interests — his seminar with Jürgen Moltmann on «Contemporary Christology,» one with Heiko Oberman on «The Concept of Justification in Luther and the Council of Trent,» and another with Eberhard Jungel on «Natural Theology in Barth's Church Dogmatics.&raquin Luther and the Council of Trent,» and another with Eberhard Jungel on «Natural Theology in Barth's Church Dogmatics.&raquin Barth's Church Dogmatics.»

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

Daily meditation became essential; he saw that dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.

First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.

Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted in 1978 with the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, and as co-editor of the English version of Karl Barth's monumental Church Dogmatics, Thomas Forsyth Torrance was the greatest British....

At one extreme it results in a dogmatic insistence on the rightness of the missionary's culture and way of thinking, or, at the other extreme, in an affirmation of the validity of all cultures and the right of local people to read the Bible for themselves and formulate their own theologies.

Or is dogmatic or scholastic theology less doubted in point of fact for claiming, as it does, to be in point of right undoubtable?

Theology is dogmatic for Barth in that it embraces the classical dogmatic definitions of the ecumenical councils, and especially Chalcedon, as to the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ: in Jesus Christ we confront both what it means to be divine and what it means to be human.

I hope he is now in heaven praying that each of us will go the whole way across the bridge he built, and return to dogmatic theology in the university without metaphysical reserve.

Third, Brueggemann rejects a systematic (or dogmatic) approach to Old Testament theology, not only because of the obvious pluralism of the texts within the canon and the cultures that interpret the Bible, but also because this approach tends to fall in line with the church's views of scripture.

Even though he modified this later in his life to become what I think is a more unified idea, it still represented the cornerstone of his contribution to Christian theology and Church dogmatics.

«The Road Ahead in Theology» (September 19, 1962) declared that theologians ought to become more sensitive to the proper use of religious language and that there is a demand for a natural theology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace oTheology» (September 19, 1962) declared that theologians ought to become more sensitive to the proper use of religious language and that there is a demand for a natural theology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace otheology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace of ideas.

We should beware that our interpretation of either the universe (science) or the Bible (theology) doesn't become so inflexibly dogmatic that it flies in the face of truth.

To Steve and Brigitte and anyone else interested in the truly brilliant insights of Luther's pastoral (not dogmatic) theology, I also recommend this excellent article:

Although he had been interested in science from a young age, it was while teaching dogmatic theology in the United States that he became increasingly fascinated with the connections between his own subjects and those of science and philosophy.