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The article presents the problem of the most proper nature of the structure of fundamental theology. The author opts (by formulating arguments in favour of his stance) for a structure composed of four treatises: a tractatus on religion, a tractatus on Revelation, a tractatus on the Church and a tractatus on theological epistemology. Furthermore, he analyses the traditional structure: religion-Revelation-Church...
The article raises the following question: is the Bible the most important source of theological cognition, or just a First Theology? It seems that the Bible contains implicite a 'First Theology' of the Church. However, according to B. S. Childs, a canon, an ultimate text is not identified with the final meaning of the text. So, it is an Orthodox Theology that reflects on God's words to get TO know...
It is a fact that Neopentecostal version of Christianity, i.e. the so-called third wave of Pentecostal revival developing form the 1970s, receives quite a lot of attention in Ghana (and not only there). To a large extent, its attractiveness is due to such treatment of indigenous key worries of the Ghanaians (health and prosperity) that many perceive as Christian. The article presents an outline of...
Fundamental Theology is scientific discipline which ex professo treats about justifying the credibility of Christianity. This discipline is about the foundations of faith and justifies credibility of Divine Revelation which has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ and lasts in the Church. Fundamental Theology would like to make Christian faith reasonable as it shoud be because a man is reasonable and free...
The subject of the research is the text of the Hymns to the Church by Gertruda von le Fort, a twentieth-century Christian German writer. The Hymns is the turning-point in le Fort's writings; in fact it is a record of the revelation of the truth about the Church and of the way leading to it. The author analyses le Fort's writings from the point of view of the image of the church presented there and...
The aim of the paper is to present Saint Catharine of Alexandria and Saint Andrew in the context of country-folk religiosity and traditions. Memorials of these two Saints in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church fall at the end of liturgical year and the beginning of Advent. The Feasts of these two Saints also became the focal point of pre-Christian folk customs and beliefs pertaining mostly to...
(German title: Ist die Gliederung der Fundamentaltheologie in Traktate eine sinnvolle Weiterfuhrung der traditionellen Demonstrationes?). The article presents a traditional classification of the subjects of fundamental theology based on three demonstrationes. Despite the fact that it was criticized by the participants of Vaticanum II, its existence in the present (German) fundamental theology can...
At the beginning, the author draws attention to some controversial elements contained in the article by Peter Hofmann, who understands the Bible as the 'First Theology' in too narrow a sense. In the next part, the canonical approach of Brevard Childs, who concentrates on the final form of the text, is confronted with the canonical criticism presented by James Sanders. Then, the stages of the Biblical...
The main aim of the article is to demonstrate the elements indispensable to understanding how hermeneutics constitutes a fundamental 'locus' in which the question of 'truth' and the task of 'metaphysics' may be again welcomed, understood and renewed. This task requires presenting historical views of authors who showed the real nature of hermeneutics. Such a historical exposition is composed of elements...
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