Not exact matches
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 the
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 the
Dogmatic 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.
In 1984 he and Braaten edited Christian Dogmatics, a two - volume systematic theology that was for a decade a standard text in Lutheran seminarie
In 1984 he and Braaten edited Christian
Dogmatics, a two - volume systematic
theology that was for a decade a standard text
in Lutheran seminarie
in Lutheran seminaries.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
in Luther and the Council of Trent,» and another with Eberhard Jungel on «Natural
Theology in Barth's Church Dogmatics.&raqu
in 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 o
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 o
theology 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.