Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
To take an illustration
which is particularly apt, as it does not involve any of the central problems of
dogmatic theology, in Matt.
Theology as an isolated discipline
which is structured primarily or solely in reference to biblical and traditional
dogmatic themes will decline in importance.
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.
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....
But
theology proper may take a third form
which I will call, quite arbitrarily, «
dogmatic»
theology.