Posts Tagged ‘nature of theology’

December 27, 2009 1

Rahner on Theology and Progress

By Robert Minto in History, Progress, Theology

A while back, I posted about how each theologian needs to define theology in order to credibly proceed in his chosen science. In the ensuing comment-dialogue, it became apparent that back of my assertions lay a conception of two kinds of theology: frozen (or static) theology and progressive (or dynamic) theology. This conception seemed to [...]

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August 7, 2009 2

About Reading the Bible & Theories

By Robert Minto in Obligation, Scholarship, Scripture, Theology

Theology is a kind of theorizing.
Many people don’t realize this. For some, a document like the Westminster Confession of Faith would be demeaned if it were called a collection of theories. To be theoretical is to be ephemeral, debatable, even disprovable. But confessions are theoretical—ephemeral, debatable, disprovable—even much more generally accepted confessions, such as the [...]

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