Chistian Doctrine, The external Prolegomena : Vakgroep Systematic Theology. Dogmatic theology 2
Ouweneel ; Chistian Doctrine, The external Prolegomena: Vakgroep Systematic Theology. Dogmatic theology 2 / Ouweneel, W.J.
Leuven, Belgium: Bijbelinstituut Belgie v.z.w., 1997. —
ББК 230 / Ouw / 1997
Зміст:
Contents 1. THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THEOLOGY -- pg. 1 1.1 Some pro’s and con’s of philosophical foundations -- pg. 1 1.1.1 Liberal and conservative theology -- pg. 1 1.1.2 Suggestions for a sound meta-theology -- pg. 3 1.1.3 Some counter-arguments -- pg. 5 1.2 The dangers of scholasticism, biblicism, and humanism -- pg. 7 1.2 The dangers of scholasticism, biblicism, and humanism -- pg. 7 1.2.2 Biblicism, and irrationalism more generally -- pg. 11 1.2.3 Humanism -- pg. 18 1.3 A Christian-philosophical paradigm -- pg. 23 1.3.1 Where do we find one? -- pg. 23 1.3.2 Is a Christian theology at all possible or necessary? -- pg. 27 2. THE STUDY ‘OBJECT ’ OF THEOLOGY -- pg. 36 2.1 The fear of prolegomena -- pg. 36 2.1.1 The ‘threat’ of philosophy -- pg. 36 2.1.2 The prolegomena in recent dogmatic works -- pg. 38 2.2 What is theology? -- pg. 42 2.2.1 A theological or a philosophical question? -- pg. 42 2.2.2 Several definitions of theology -- pg. 45 2.3 Practical faith vs. theoretical theology -- pg. 54 2.3.1 A‘continuum’? -- pg. 54 2.3.2 Differences and correspondences -- pg. 60 2.4 The modal aspect of faith -- pg. 67 2.4.1 The Gegenstand relationship -- pg. 67 2.4.2 Why ‘the Bible’ is not theology’s field of research -- pg. 71 2.4.3 The current ‘theoreticalization’ of practical faith-knowledge -- pg. 75 3 THEOLOGY AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS -- pg. 86 3.1 The relationship between theology and philosophy -- pg. 86 3.1.1 Historical backgrounds -- pg. 86 3.1.2 The necessity of Christian-philosophical foundations -- pg. 93 3.1.3 The views of Brunner and Barth -- pg. 95 3.2 The relationship between theology and the other sciences -- pg. 99 3.2.1 Natural and supranatural theology -- pg. 99 3.2.2 Theology as one of the ‘special sciences’ -- pg. 103 3.3 The relationship between theology and confession -- pg. 105 3.3.1 Dogmatics and the church -- pg. 105 3.3.2 The meaning of dogma -- pg. 108 3.3.3 Reformational and Evangelical considerations -- pg. 110 3.3.4 Is dogmatics bound to creeds? -- pg. 114 3.3.5 Again: practical faith vs. theoretical theology -- pg. 118 4. THEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY -- pg. 128
4.1 Analysis -- pg. 128 4.1.1 Abstraction: its general nature -- pg. 128 4.1.2 Substantialism -- pg. 131 4.1.3 Practical faith and theological analysis -- pg. 134 4.1.4 Systematic-theological abstraction -- pg. 137 4.2 Concepts, ideas, metaphors -- pg. 140 4.2.1 Theological concepts -- pg. 140 4.2.2 Theological ideas -- pg. 145 4.2.3 Theological metaphors -- pg. 150 4.2.4 Root-metaphors -- pg. 154 4.3 Theological criteria -- pg. 157 4.3.1 The ‘two worlds’ of the systematic theologian -- pg. 157 4.3.2 Modal criteria for theology -- pg. 160 4.3.3 Systematization -- pg. 167 4.4 Faith and reason -- pg. 171 4.4.1 Analogies in the pistical modality -- pg. 171 4.4.2 The logical in the pistical -- pg. 175 5. THEOLOGICAL PARADIGMS -- pg. 184 5.1 The concept of paradigm -- pg. 184 5.1.1 Kuhn on paradigms -- pg. 184 5.1.2 A Christian-philosophical paradigm -- pg. 187 5.1.3 Ground-motive and dogmatism -- pg. 191
5.2 Systematic-theological paradigms -- pg. 194 5.2.1 The doctrine of the religious ground-motives -- pg. 194 5.2.2 Three general paradigms -- pg. 197 5.2.3 Scientistic (sub)paradigms -- pg. 200 5.3 Bibliotropic (sub)paradigms -- pg. 209 5.3.1 The classical-Reformational and the Evangelical paradigm -- pg. 209 5.3.2 A closer comparison -- pg. 213 5.3.3 A confrontation of paradigms -- pg. 216 5.3.4 An example: Jonker on the covenant -- pg. 219 6. THEOLOGICAL THEORY FORMATION AND TRUTH -- pg. 228 6.1 The concept of truth -- pg. 228 6.1.1 The ‘relational’ concept of truth -- pg. 228 6.1.2 The Biblical notion of truth -- pg. 233 6.1.3 The theoretical concept of truth -- pg. 237 6.2 Scientific truth -- pg. 243 6.2.1 Realism and instrumentalism -- pg. 243 6.2.2 The conflict in recent times -- pg. 245 6.2.3 Present-day realism -- pg. 248 6.3 Theological truth -- pg. 252 6.3.1 Again: practical and theoretical thought -- pg. 252 6.3.2 The subject-object relationship -- pg. 256 6.4 Supra-theological truth -- pg. 261 6.4.1 Rational and supra-rational truth -- pg. 261 6.4.2 The fulness of Truth -- pg. 264 6.4.3 The apriori’s of Truth -- pg. 266 7. SUMMARY -- pg. 272 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- pg. 276
Анотація:
This second edition of "Christian Doctrine: The External Prolegomena" is published as a Syllabus for the students of the European School of Evangelical Theology, Heverlee (Belgium), with kind permission of the first editions publisher: Buijten and Schipperheijn, Amsterdam (Netherlands).