Charts on Systematic Theolog

by House, H. Wayne

• ISBN13: 9780825427718
• ISBN10: 0825427711
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional

Summary

In an easy-to-follow, parallel-column format, this volume summarizes the major introductory issues in systematic theology. Its approach will be especially useful to visually oriented learners.

Table of Contents

Preface	10	(1)
Acknowledgments	11	(4)
What Is Theology?
Introductory Issues	15	(2)
A Line in the Sand?	15	(1)
``Objective Theologies''	15	(1)
``Subjective Theologies''	16	(1)
Objective Theologies	17	(4)
Theology as Science (Rationality)	17	(1)
Theology as Search for Understanding/Wisdom	17	(1)
Theology as Ministry	17	(1)
Theology as Conversation and Proclamation	17	(4)
Subjective Theologies	21	(8)
Theology as Feeling (Description of)	21	(1)
Theology as Historical Science (or Scientific Method)	21	(1)
Theology as Transformation (Liberation)	21	(1)
Theology as Negation (Radical Theologies)	21	(1)
Theology as Communal Language	21	(8)
The Possibility of Systematic Theology
Introductory Considerations	29	(1)
Different Perspectives on the Possibility	30	(5)
Systematic Theology Is Possible but Should Be Tied to Biblical Theology	30	(1)
Systematic Theology Is Possible Because Doctrines Are Necessary	30	(1)
Systematic Theology (``Dogmatics'') Is Possible and Necessary Because of Scripture's Diversity	30	(2)
Systematic Theology Is Possible and Necessary Because of the Unity of Scripture's Story	32	(1)
Systematic Theology Is Possible, but Always Contextual	32	(1)
Systematic Theology Is Possible, but Always Hermeneutical	32	(3)
Contemporary Challenges to the Possibility of Systematic Theology	35	(5)
Constructive, Revisionist Theology	36	(1)
``Poetic'' Theology, Not Dogmatic, Systematic Theology	36	(4)
Four Divisions of Theology
Systematic Theology	40	(1)
Biblical Theology	40	(1)
Historical Theology	40	(1)
Philosophical Theology	40	(5)
The Nature of Doctrine
Introductory Issues	45	(1)
Approaches to Doctrine	46	(5)
The Postliberal Cultural-Linguistic Approach	46	(1)
The Postconservative Canonical-Linguistic Approach	46	(1)
The Genesis of Doctrine and a ``Scientific Theology''	46	(5)
The Nature of Divine Revelation
What Is Revelation and Where Is It Located?	51	(1)
Five Models of Revelation	52	(7)
Revelation as Speech	52	(1)
Revelation as History	52	(1)
Revelation as Dialectical Presence	52	(4)
Revelation as Inner Experience	56	(1)
Revelation as New Awareness	56	(3)
General and Special Revelation: How Can God Be Known?	59	(1)
How Knowledge of God Is Acquired	60	(7)
Natural Theology Tells Us That God Is, Revealed Theology Tells Us Who God Is	60	(1)
God Is Revealed Generally, but Truly Known Only Specially	60	(2)
All Theology Is Revealed Theology	62	(1)
Revealed Theology Finds Its ``Point of Contact'' in Natural Theology	62	(5)
Knowledge and Language About God
Knowledge of God	67	(1)
Language About God: Religious and Theological Language	68	(7)
Human Language Is Meaningfully Descriptive of Divine Reality: Univocal	69	(1)
Language Is Not Meaningfully Descriptive of Ultimate Reality: Equivocal	70	(1)
Our Language Refers to God's Reality Indirectly but Meaningfully: Analogical	71	(4)
Hermeneutics and Theological Interpretation
Introductory Issues	75	(2)
Types of Hermeneutics	77	(8)
Objective Hermeneutics	77	(5)
Subjective Hermeneutics	82	(3)
Two Evangelical Approaches to Applying the Meaning of the Bible	85	(5)
Nonhermeneutical Theology: Robert Thomas's Critique of the ``New Evangelical Hermeneutics''	85	(1)
A Redemptive-Historical Hermeneutic: William Webb	85	(5)
Faith and Reason
Different Views of the Relationship of Faith and Reason	90	(5)
Faith Against Reason	90	(1)
Reason Against Faith	90	(1)
Faith Seeking Understanding	90	(1)
Understanding Enabling Faith	90	(5)
The Source and Structure of Truth
What Is Truth?	95	(1)
Nature of Truth	96	(5)
Truth as Correspondence	96	(1)
Truth as Coherence	97	(1)
Truth as Pragmatism	98	(3)
How Can We Come to Have ``True'' Theological Knowledge?	101	(3)
Rational Evidentialism	101	(1)
Revelational Presuppositionalism	101	(1)
Rational and Propositional Revelationalism	101	(1)
Fideistic Revelationalism	101	(3)
The Source of Truth	104	(2)
Rationalism	104	(1)
Empiricism	104	(1)
Authoritative Revelation	104	(2)
The Justification of Truth	106	(5)
Foundationalism	106	(1)
Nonfoundationalism (Coherentism)	106	(5)
The Relationship Between the Testaments
The Relationship Between the Testaments and Its Implication for Theology	111	(1)
Unity or Diversity? A Question for Systematic/Doctrinal Theology	112	(5)
Unity, Emphasizing Continuity	112	(1)
Unity, Emphasizing Both Continuity and Discontinuity	112	(1)
Classic and Revised Dispensationalism: Unity, Emphasizing Discontinuity	112	(1)
Progressive Dispensationalism: Unity, with Continuity and Discontinuity	112	(1)
Diversity and Plurality	112	(5)
Interpretative Issues with Respect to the Relationship Between the Testaments for Biblical Theology	117	(2)
Subjective Theologies	119	(4)
Methodological Inclusivity	119	(1)
Methodological Exclusivity	119	(1)
Both/And Approaches	119	(4)
Bibliography	123	(6)
Scripture Index	129	(1)
Name Index	130	(2)
Subject Index	132