Robert Jenson's Systematic Theology: a review essay

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-200
Author(s):  
George Hunsinger
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Trinity

The essay explores the inner logic that connects Jenson's view of the work of Christ, the person of Christ, and the doctrine of God. More specifically, it examines his understanding of the cross, the incarnation, and the trinity. Despite clear intentions to the contrary, Jenson lands outside the bounds of established ecumenical consensus. His view of the cross tends toward Socinus, of the incarnation toward Arius, and of the trinity toward Hegel in ways that seem subordinationist and tritheistic. One possible reason for this outcome is a rationalistic mindset that displays a low tolerance for paradox in dogmatic theology.

Priest Theodore Delektorsky (in Future Bishop Nikita) and His Anthem of the Moscow Theological Academy

2019 ◽  
pp. 222-256
Author(s):  
Дионисий Шлёнов
Keyword(s):  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
Parish Ministry ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The Trinity

В публикации приводится юбилейное стихотворение и гимн, написанные в честь 100-летия пребывания Академии в Троице-Сергиевой Лавре (1814-1914). Автор поэтических строк протоиерей Феодор Делекторский на момент их составления заканчивал Московскую духовную академию в священном сане, принятом задолго до поступления в неё. Приходское служение не охладило, а, наоборот, усилило стремление его души к духовному образованию. Дальнейший жизненный путь отца Феодора, принявшего монашеский постриг, епископский сан и вступившего на путь юродства, является яркой страницей в академической агиологии. Строки гимна о крестоношении стали пророческими по отношению к судьбе самого автора. Статья основывается на архивных данных и публикациях, часть из которых хранится в библиотеке Московской духовной академии. The publication contains an anniversary poem and anthem written in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Academy in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra (1814-1914). The author of poetic lines Archpriest Theodore Delektorsky at the time of their composition graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy in the rank of clergy, adopted long before entering it. Parish Ministry was not discouraged, but rather strengthened the desire of his soul to spiritual education. The further life path of the author Theodore lead him to monastic vows, and then to the Episcopal rank. His life ended in martyrdome - a bright page in academic hagiology. The lines of the hymn about the cross became prophetic in relation to the fate of the author. The article is based on archival data and publications, some of which are stored in the library of the Moscow Theological Academy.

Redefining progress in Trinitarian theology: Stephen R. Holmes on the Trinity

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Fred Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Divine Attributes ◽  
Classical Theism ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Constructive Work ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
The Trinity

This essay examines some of the implications for contemporary constructive work on the doctrine of the Trinity if Steve Holmes is correct in his judgments about the direction taken by the recent revival of interest in the doctrine. Holmes raises serious questions about the exegetical basis of the doctrine, and raises the question of what God has revealed in the sending of the Son and the Spirit. Some areas of maximal divergence between the classic tradition and the recent revival are probed, such as the recent lack of interest in the elaboration and defense of divinity unity, and also of the divine attributes as explored by classical theism. Finally, Holmes’s work raises questions about the proper relationships between systematic theology and allied theological disciplines such as historical theology and analytic theology.

scholarly journals The Son as a Torn Veil: The Mysteries of Jesus According to J. Ratzinger-Benedict XVI

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-635
Author(s):  
Jerzy Szymik
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Vague Concept ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Academic Theology

J. Ratzinger-Benedict XVI relates theological cognition to following Jesus and going in His footsteps. He emphasizes the inseparable, mutual, servant-like relationship between academic theology and Christian praxis, Christological hermeneutics with the existential basis of faith. Intellectual and spiritual understanding of the mystery of Jesus depends on intimacy with Him and grows on this path: only the Son can show the Father because he knows Him in a way that defines his existence as the Son. The eternal inter-Trinitarian conversation with the Father – the prayer of the Son, His sonship-obedience – finds its corporal expression in history, and the humanity of Jesus, whose culmination is the cross, remains His prayer. The earthly life, and finally the Passover of Jesus, introduces into the human, vague concept of God the experience of the loving Father, thus making the course of history definitively meaningful and fulfilling, and the faith legitimate. Ratzinger defends Christology as a conceptual understanding of the truth of the Gospel, the depth and integrity of which Christology guards and to which it refers. Disregarding in faith the cognitive achievements and heritage of systematic theology leads to depriving faith of its most important contents, without which it starts to look in the dark for justifications which are subjective as well as fuzzy.

The Nature of God and the Trinity

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Kyle C. Strobel
Keyword(s):  
Unique Feature ◽  
Divine Attributes ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Trinity

Commonly recognized as fundamental to his thought as a whole, Edwards’s doctrine of the Trinity has, nonetheless, been the subject of much discord in the secondary literature. After initially mapping the various perspectives (or ‘instincts’) on the issue, this chapter turns to the notion of personalism to explain the inner logic of Edwards’s account. This unique feature of Edwards’s doctrine explains how he can utilize traditional theological machinery in his doctrine of God (i.e. psychological imagery, simplicity, actus purus, filioque, and divine blessedness), to establish his idiosyncratic development of perichoresis and the divine attributes. What this reading of Edwards’s doctrine helps establish is how he articulates human speech about God, and various rules for how that speech functions (e.g. talk about God is to talk about person(s); God’s self-giving is funded by, rather than diminished by, God’s perfection).

Jesus Christ in Martin Luther’s Theology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Zachhuber
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Theology Of The Cross ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Justification By Faith ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Trinity

Luther’s theology is strongly Christocentric, but Christology is rarely the central focus of his writings. In some of his most considered summaries of his own faith, he presents Chalcedonian Christology alongside the church’s teaching on the Trinity as the uncontroversial foundation of the Catholic faith, which he shared with his opponents. At the same time, it is evident that Luther’s most celebrated theological innovations, including his teaching on justification by faith, his theology of the cross, his soteriology, and in particular his doctrine of the Eucharist, had considerable Christological implications that sometimes seem at variance with received orthodoxy. Luther’s Christology must therefore be largely reconstructed from these various strands in his thought. The result is a distinctive albeit not systematic Christology that is focused on the paradoxical unity of divine and human in Christ. In this, Luther often appears close to the teaching of the Alexandrian fathers, but with a much fuller emphasis on the concrete humanity of the savior. His historical debt to late scholasticism is most evident in his few, albeit consequential, attempts to enter into the field of technical Christological doctrine, especially his affirmation in his controversy with Zwingli of the ubiquity of Christ’s human nature after the ascension.

scholarly journals The Trinity in African Christian theology: An overview of contemporary approaches

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teddy C. Sakupapa
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Concepts Of God ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

This contribution offers a survey of the modern African theological discourse on the Trinity as a distinctive Christian doctrine of God. It is a systematic narrative review of primary literature on the doctrine of the Trinity in modern African theology with a view to identify main trends, key concepts and major proponents. It is argued that the contemporary African Trinitarian Hermeneutics cannot be understood in isolation from African debates on translatability of concepts of God framed first in terms of the reinterpretation of the theological significance of pre-Christian African concepts of God and subsequently as an outcome of African Christological reflection. The article affirms an apophatic resistance to any tendency to take God for granted as recently advanced by Ernst Conradie and Teddy Sakupapa.

Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, The Doctrine of God, vol. 1 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-34
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Lee ◽  
Ian A. McFarland ◽  
Joy McDougall ◽  
Katherine Sonderegger
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God
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