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a discipline of study that seeks to understand the God revealed in the Bible and to provide a Christian understanding of reality.
human beings are incurably religious.
Its built into the heart of man.
Friedrich Schleiermacher,
religion is a matter of feeling, either of feeling in general or of the feeling of absolute dependence.
Popular contemporary Christian worship shows a strong emphasis on feeling.
Kant determined that religion is an object of the practical reason.
Our contention is that doctrines do indeed consist of genuine knowledge about God, and that religion involves the whole person: intellect, emotions, and will.
the discipline that strives to give a coherent statement of the doctrines of the Christian faith, based primarily on the Scriptures, placed in the context of culture in general, worded in a contemporary idiom, and related to issues of life.
“the peril of archaizing ourselves,”26 must similarly be avoided.
If the present represents a change from the past, then presumably the future will also be different from the present.
practical.
the idea that theology relates to living rather than merely to belief.
Without being aware of it, we screen all that we consider through the filter of our own understanding
Failure to realize this must surely be a case of intellectual presbyopia.
we will find that they are actually new forms of old conceptions.
It complicates the Christian message, making it confusing and difficult for the layperson to understand.
And most bible students!
The dilemma theology faces here is similar to philosophy’s problem of the priority of metaphysics or epistemology.
Augustus Hopkins Strong’s
idea of God is a first truth, a rational intuition.
This view agrees with Genesis 1:1 and Romans 1:17-22
Thomas Aquinas maintained that the existence of God could be proved by pure reason, without relying on any external authority.
Every organization or institution has some goals, objectives, or defining basis.
Theology is an activity of the church in which believers may be engaged at three levels: the practicing believer, those who teach other believers, and the theoreticians.
In general, modernism has sought for an explanation that would cover all things. So the great systems of the modern period were omni-explanatory.
Darwinism
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Marxism
These ideologies offered universal diagnoses as well as universal cures.
Coherentism is the theory that the truth of propositions is demonstrated by their coherence with other
Pragmatism is the theory that the truth of propositions is demonstrated by their practical effects.
postmodernists reject any sort of objective rational cognitive approach, dismissing it as modernism,
reality, however, what they are rejecting is not just modernism, but the whole Western tradition, as one can see on closer examination of such thinkers as Augustine and Aquinas.
without some objective grounding in a reality that transcends the community, one is faced with the problem of which community to identify with, and why.
alliances are made around persons, rather than ideas.
denominational differences, such as the sacraments, are getting less attention than in the past.
2 Timothy 4:3 KJV
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
exegesis–biblical theology–systematic theology.
