By Jenson, Robert W.; Braaten, Carl E.; Forde, Gerhard O
Christian Dogmatics is a two-volume survey of the twelve significant loci of Christian doctrine, every one handled largely by way of its biblical foundations, historic culture, and modern importance. From the viewpoint of the Lutheran culture and in view of the original questions and problems with the yankee context, every one locus is built self sufficient of the others by way of six theologians, themselves inspired by means of divergent theological routine: Carl Braaten, Gerhard Forde, Philip Hefner, Robert Jenson, Paul Sponheim, and Hans Schwartz. quantity 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the id of God, construction, sin, and Christology. quantity 2 treats atonement, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, the sacraments, justification by way of religion, and eschatology
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Paris, 1850–55, 1941–49. RelSt Religious Studies RGG3 Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 3d ed. Tübingen, 1956–65. RMet Review of Metaphysics ScEc Sciences ecclésiastiques: Revue philosophique et théologique SM(E) Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology. 6 vols. New York, 1968–70. StNT Studien zum Neuen Testament TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. 10 vols. Edited by Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich. Grand Rapids, 1964ff. ThTo Theology Today ThWNT Theologische Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament.
Historical facts are always suspended in traditions of interpretation which keep them alive in the stream of a community’s memories and hopes. The historical criticism of the biblical texts and sacred traditions on which Christianity is based has been feared by conservative Christians as the destruction of the foundations of faith. Actually, however, the historical method is an indispensable ally of Christian theology. Paul Tillich said it well: The historical approach to Biblical literature is one of the great events in the history of Christianity and even of religion and human culture.
If theology is the “science of God,” its claim to knowledge is not limited to the devotees of a believing sect, but has universal validity. The idea of God, by definition, is not merely a matter of private experience, but deals with the final power which determines the being and meaning of all reality. Any God who is less than this is no God at all. Yet it has been questioned whether theology can be seriously considered a “science,” that is, a discipline dealing with some field of knowledge with an appropriate method.