Thanks. The expression rational theology is quite nice and I have been
tempted to use it but it is already used by Mormons in a too much a
priori "christian" frame.
http://www.lds-mormon.com/widtsoe.shtml
But if a adjective should be added to "theology" I think I would use
"lobian" perhaps. But not in a title. Machine theology is better,
although superficially (pregodelian) contradictory.
Bruno
Le 12-janv.-06, à 20:22, Benjamin Udell a écrit :
> Bruno, list,
>
> It occurred to me that I ought not merely to "wing it" on the meaning
> of "theology" as a word. There are various places online to look it
> up, but this is an interesting one and, anyway, some may find this to
> be an introduction to a good resource.
>
>> From the Century Dictionary http://www.global-language.com/century/
> (About the really rather useful Century Dictionary:
> http://www.leoyan.com/century-dictionary.com/why.php )
>
> (Requires installing software) Century Dictionary, Vol. VIII, Page
> 6274, Theologus to Theorbo (DjVu)
> http://www.leoyan.com/century-dictionary.com/08/index08.djvu?
> djvuopts&page=66 ,
> (DjVu Highlighted), (Java) (JPEG)
>
> theology (the¯-ol' o¯-ji), n. [< ME. theologie, < OF. theologie, F.
> théologie = Pr. teologia = Sp. teología = Pg. theologia = It. teologia
> = D. G. theologie = Sw. Dan. teologi, < LL. theologia, < Gr.
> theología, a speaking concerning God, < theológos, speaking of God
> (see theologue), < theós, god, + légein, speak.] The science concerned
> with ascertaining, classifying, and systematizing all attainable truth
> concerning God and his relation to the universe; the science of
> religion; religious truth scientifically stated.
> The ancient Greeks used the word to designate the history of their
> gods; early Christian writers applied it to the doctrine of the nature
> of God; Peter Abelard, ill the twelfth century, first began to employ
> it to denote scientific instruction concerning God and the divine
> life. Theology differs from religion as the science of any subject
> differs from the subject matter itself. Religion in the broadest sense
> is a life of right affections and right conduct toward God; theology
> is a scientific knowledge of God and of the life which reverence and
> allegiance toward him require. Theology is divided, in reference to
> the sources whence the knowledge is derived, into natural theology,
> which treats of God and divine things in so far as their nature is
> disclosed through human consciousness, through the material creation,
> and through the moral order discernible in the course of history apart
> from specific revelation, and revealed theology, which treats of the
> same subject-matter as mad!
> e known in the scriptures of the 0ld and the New Testament. The
> former is theistic merely; the latter is Christian, and includes the
> doctrine of salvation by Christ, and of future rewards and
> punishments. In reference to the ends sought and the methods of
> treatment, theology is again divided into theoretical theology, which
> treats of the doctrines and principles of the divine life for the
> purpose of scientific and philosophical accuracy, and practical
> theology, which treats of the duties of the divine life for immediate
> practical ends. Theology is further divided, according to
> subject-matter and methods, into various branches, of which the
> principal are given below.
> Ac Theologie hath tened me ten score tymes,
> The more I muse there-inne the mistier it seemeth.
> Piers Plowman (B), x. 180.
> Theology, what is it but the science of things divine?
> Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 8.
> Theology, properly and directly, deals with notional apprehension;
> religion with imaginative.
> J. H. Newman, Gram. of Assent, p. 115.
> --Ascetical theology. See ascetical.
> --Biblical theology, that branch of theology which has for its object
> to set forth the knowledge of God and the divine life as gathered from
> a large study of the Bible, as opposed to a merely minute study of
> particular texts on the one hand, and to a mere use of philosophical
> methods on the other.
> --Dogmatic theology, that department of theology which has for its
> object a connected and scientific statement of theology as a complete
> and harmonious science as authoritatively held and taught by the
> church.
> --Exegetical theology. See exegetical.
> --Federal theology, a system of theology based upon the idea of two
> covenants between God and man--the covenant of nature, or of works,
> before the fall, by which eternal life was promised to man on
> condition of his perfect obedience to the moral law, and the covenant
> of grace, after the fall, by which salvation and eternal life are
> promised to man by the free grace of God. Kloppenburg, professor of
> theology at Franeker in the Netherlands (died 1652), originated the
> system, and it was perfected (1648) by John Koch (Cocceius), successor
> of Kloppenburg in the same chair. See Cocceian.
> --Fundamental theology, that branch of systematic theology which
> vindicates man's knowledge of God by the investigation of its grounds
> and sources in general, and of the trustworthiness of the Christian
> revelation in particular, and which therefore includes both natural
> theology and the evidences of Christianity.
> --Genevan theology. See Genevan.
> --Historical theology, the science of the history and growth of
> Christian doctrines.
> --Homiletic theology. Same as homiletics.
> --Liberal theology. See liberal Christianity, under liberal.
> --Mercersburg theology, a school of evangelical philosophy and
> theology which arose about the year 1836, in the theological seminary
> of the German Reformed Church at Mercersburg in Pennsylvania. It laid
> emphasis on the incarnation as the center of theology, on development
> as the law of church life, on the importance of the sacraments of
> baptism and the Lord's Supper as divinely appointed means of grace,
> and on Christian education of the youth of the church.
> --Monumental theology. See monumental.
> --Moral theology, a phrase nearly equivalent to moral philosophy,
> denoting that branch of practical theology which treats of ethics, or
> man's duties to his fellow-men.
> The science of Moral Theology, as it was at first called, and as it
> is still designated by the Roman Catholic divines, was undoubtedly
> constructed, to the full knowledge of its authors, by taking
> principles of conduct from the system of the Church, and by using the
> language and methods of jurisprudence for their expression and
> expansion.
> Maine, Ancient Law, p. 337.
> --Mystical theology. See mystical.
> --Natural theology. See def. above.
> --New England theology, that phase or those phases of Puritan
> theological thought characteristic of the Congregational and
> Calvinistic churches of New England.
> --New theology, a name popularly given to a modern phase of Protestant
> evangelical theology, especially as found in the New England
> Congregational churches. As an intellectual movement it has much in
> common with the Broad Church movement in the Church of England. In its
> philosophy the new theology partakes of Greek, the old theology of
> Latin Christian thought.
> --Pastoral theology. See pastoral.
> --Polemical theology, the learning and practice involved in the
> endeavor to defend by scientific and philosophical arguments one
> system of theology, or to controvert the positions of other and
> opposing theological systems.
> --Rational theology. See rational.
> --Scholastic theology. See scholastic.
> --Speculative theology, a system of theology which proceeds upon human
> speculation, as opposed to one which proceeds upon an acceptance of
> knowledge restricted to what has been revealed in the Bible.
> --Systematic theology, a general term for all arranged and classified
> knowledge of God and his relations to the universe, having for its
> object the vindication of the reality of man's knowledge of God, in
> opposition to agnostic philosophy, by the investigation of the grounds
> and sources of such knowledge in general and of the trustworthiness of
> the Christian revelation in particular, and the ascertaining,
> formulating, and systematizing of all that is known respecting God and
> his relations to the universe, in such form as to make manifest its
> scientific trustworthiness.
> Systematic theology presupposes exegetical, Biblical, and
> historical theology, and is the basis of applied or practical
> theology. Systematic or Speculative theology... comprehends
> Apologetics, Dogmatics, Symbolics, Polemics, Ethics, and Statistics.
> Schaff; Christ and Christianity, p. 4.
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