Sentences with phrase «of dogmatic theology»

Yet the rise of neo-orthodoxy only reasserted the unresolved tension between the assumptions of historical criticism and the neoevangelical affirmations of dogmatic theology.

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

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.

Father Edward T. Oakes, S.J., professor of dogmatic theology at Mundelein Seminary and University of St. Mary of the Lake, has gone to God, dying on December 6, 2013.

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.

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).

Roland Faber is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University ofVienna, Institute of Dogmatic Theology, Schottenring 21, A - 1010 Vienna, Austria.

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

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

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.

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.

Alex — my view is that male - centred dogmatic theology sets up a dualistic and paternal way of perceiving ourselves that is maintained to keep control.

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

Yet their methods are partially dialectical, and we may hope that their dialectical methods have saved theology from the temptation of the «positivism of revelation» (Bonhoeffer's words) of the Barth of the Church Dogmatics.

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 lifOf 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 lifof great importance also for the practical life.

Mozart's music does not merely inform Barth's theology; Mozart, says von Balthasar, shapes the style of the Church Dogmatics overall.

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).

Thus, for example, the quasi-homiletical rhetoric of Barth's Church Dogmatics is not «mere style» but a sign of the inseparability of theology from witness and proclamation.

Dogmatics are for the sake of Scripture study, not vice versa, and so with all technical branches of theology.

Inevitably such a dialectical theology falls back upon a dogmatic and non-dialectical form of faith or belief, thereby foreclosing the possibility of reaching a coincidentia oppositorum.

This theology was «church dogmatics» - it had to do with the reiteration of the self - understanding of ecclesial existence.

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.

Diamond's philosophical theology following the rejection of Barthian dogmatics and logical positivism.

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

Emotionally, then, dogmatic theology is worth something to minds of the type of Newman's.

It calls its conclusions dogmatic theology, or philosophy of the absolute, as the case may be; it does not call them science of religions.

For all his warnings about the hubris of theological systems, his dogmatic theology looked like a massive new scholasticism.

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.

• Reviewing a batch of evangelical books on dogmatic theology (May), Carl Braaten, a Lutheran, didn't like at all Wayne Grudem's Systematic Ttheology (May), Carl Braaten, a Lutheran, didn't like at all Wayne Grudem's Systematic TheologyTheology.

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.

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.

While insisting that he was not tempted by biblical literalism, Karl Barth began his dogmatics by describing the liberal tradition of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Adolf von Harnack as «the plain destruction of Protestant theology and the Protestant church.»

It maintains that New Testament exegesis is important for dogmatic theology, and does not shirk from the tensions created by such exegesis for the proclaimed faith of the church.

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.»

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.

The recent dogmatic theology of Stange, Althaus, and Holmstrom, has followed up the suggestions of Luther and worked out an eschatology on genuine New Testament lines.

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.

Its metaphysics is equally compatible and equally incompatible with the sensibilities of any number of faiths, and of any number of schools within individual faiths; but, if it has anything resembling a theology, it is of the mystical, rather than the dogmatic, kind, and so its doctrinal content is nebulous.

If we accept these strictures for theology, then it follows that contemporary theology must be alienated from the Church, that it can be neither kerygmatic, dogmatic nor apologetic, and thus its deepest immediate task is the discovery of its own ground.

To address the norms of congregational faithfulness is to do constructive dogmatic theology and moral theology.