Description
Book SynopsisThis book introduces a new multilateral methodology for the contemporary study of theology. It bases this methodology on the idea that there are too many materials contributing as sources for theologizing to sustain the one method fits all approach found in many systematic theologies within Christianity. What is needed instead is something that reflects the various and varied natures, purposes, and tasks of theologiansâ theologizing for their respective contexts.
Engaging materials from a range of Christian traditions, including Evangelicalism, the Catholic Magisterium, and a limited range of pan-Orthodox resources, the book analyzes and assesses major factors that have shaped different streams of theology. Addressing doctrinal development, scripture and revelation, historical tradition and creeds, philosophy and truth, sciences and interdisciplinarity, experience, religious pluralism, and culture, it demonstrates how these various streams can form a multilateral whole. The bo
Table of Contents
1 Introducing Theological Prolegomena 2 Theological Prolegomena and Doctrinal Development: A Historical Overview 3 Scripture and Revelation 4 History, Tradition, and Creeds 5 Reasoned Truth: Philosophy and Theological Methodology 6 Reasoned Truth: Theology, Sciences, and Interdisciplinarity 7 Experience: Philosophical, Religious, Theological, and Geopolitical Considerations 8 Truth and Religious Pluralism 9 Culture and Theological Prolegomena: Culture’s Multi-Variegated Contexts for Theologization 10 Conclusion: Centers and Peripherals of Theological-Hermeneutics
