Schrift, het dogma en de dogmatiek

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Date

Authors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria

Abstract

In this article it is argued that in actual systematic reflection on the Christian faith we cannot a priori assume that the dogma has the same content as Scripture, because it is strongly determined by its cultural-philosophical, its theological and its ecclesiastical-political contexts. Secondly, it is argued that the dogma is not a rule of faith or a hermeneutical rule for the interpretation of Scripture, but a grammatical rule for the use of the vocabulary of faith. Thirdly, Lindbeck’s concept of truth is discussed. Lindbeck rightly maintains a notion of ontological truth as correspondence, but wrongly reduces this correspondence to correspondence between the life of the believer and God and unnecessarily restricts ontological truth to the first order propositions of faith. Doctrinal propositions can claim ontological truth too (though they don’t need to do so). This criticism, however, does not affect Lindbeck’s clarifying analysis of the rule-character of doctrinal propositions.

Description

Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff Derivation: Abbyy Fine Reader v.9 work with PNG-format (black and white); Photoshop CS3; Adobe Acrobat v.9 Web display format PDF

Keywords

Scripture, Dogmatics, Ontological truth

Sustainable Development Goals

Citation

Muis, J 2003, 'De Schrift, het dogma en de dogmatiek : Scripture, dogma and dogmatics', HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 859-879.[http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/issue/archive]