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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...
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...
(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...
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