عنوان

At the Dawn of 'Practice' or Re-thinking the Nature and Role of Theology and Doctrine in the Church

شماره

LA117159

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

At the Dawn of 'Practice' or Re-thinking the Nature and Role of Theology and Doctrine in the Church

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Najib G. Awad

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Are theology and doctrine the names of the church's life of worship and proclamation, or are they their foundations? Is it acceptable theologically to develop an understanding of theology and doctrine that would completely subordinate beliefs to practices to the point of completely functionalizing beliefs and turn theology and doctrine to mere way of life? In this paper, I address these important questions by displaying two attempts at understanding the nature and role of theology and doctrine. The first approach is exemplified in Kevin Vanhoozer's proposal in The Drama of Doctrine, and Anthony Thiselton's proposal in The Hermeneutics of Doctrine, while, the second approach is exemplified in Reinhard Hütter's proposal in his valuable book Suffering Divine Things. By critiquing Vanhoozer's and Thiselton's approaches and siding with Hütter's, I hope to stress that the accuracy of our understanding of the nature and role of theology and doctrine depends to a great and substantial extent on 1) how one understands theology's relation to its primary subject matter, God, and 2) on the extent of the theologian's belief that God, not just human talk about God, is the proper object of theology. Are theology and doctrine the names of the church's life of worship and proclamation, or are they their foundations? Is it acceptable theologically to develop an understanding of theology and doctrine that would completely subordinate beliefs to practices to the point of completely functionalizing beliefs and turn theology and doctrine to mere way of life? In this paper, I address these important questions by displaying two attempts at understanding the nature and role of theology and doctrine. The first approach is exemplified in Kevin Vanhoozer's proposal in The Drama of Doctrine, and Anthony Thiselton's proposal in The Hermeneutics of Doctrine, while, the second approach is exemplified in Reinhard Hütter's proposal in his valuable book Suffering Divine Things. By critiquing Vanhoozer's and Thiselton's approaches and siding with Hütter's, I hope to stress that the accuracy of our understanding of the nature and role of theology and doctrine depends to a great and substantial extent on 1) how one understands theology's relation to its primary subject matter, God, and 2) on the extent of the theologian's belief that God, not just human talk about God, is the proper object of theology.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

3-34

عنوان

Journal of Reformed Theology

شماره جلد

8/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7312

اصطلاح موضوعی

A. Thiselton

اصطلاح موضوعی

Christian doctrines

اصطلاح موضوعی

church practice

اصطلاح موضوعی

G. Lindbeck

اصطلاح موضوعی

Holy Spirit

اصطلاح موضوعی

K. Vanhoozer

اصطلاح موضوعی

life

اصطلاح موضوعی

practice/performance

اصطلاح موضوعی

R. Haeuter

اصطلاح موضوعی

Trinity

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Najib G. Awad

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697312-00801001

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y