What is systematic theology? / Robert M. Doran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doran, Robert M., 1939-

Series:

Lonergan studies.

Lonergan studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his classic work Method in Theology, Bernard Lonergan left many questions unanswered in regard to his treatment of systematics. In What Is Systematic Theology? Robert M. Doran attempts to articulate and respond to these questions.Doran begins by accepting four emphases presented by Lonergan concerning systematics: first, that its principal function is the hypothetical and analogical understanding of the mysteries of faith; second, that it should begin with those mysteries of faith that have received dogmatic status; third, that it must proceed in the ?order of teaching? rather than the ?order of discovery?; and last, that it must be explanatory rather than merely descriptive. He then addresses questions that are raised by each of these emphases. What Is Systematic Theology? is the most thorough attempt undertaken to date to advance Lonergan?s program for systematics, fully in the spirit of his work but addressing issues that he left to others. Doran?s idea of a core set of meanings for systematics ? or a ?unified field structure? ? is highly original, as is the integration of the systematic ideal and contemporary historical consciousness.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Question""; ""2 The Principal Function of Systematics and the Issues This Raises""; ""1 Lonergan�s Emphases""; ""1.1 The Principal Function""; ""1.2 Dogma and Systematics""; ""1.3 The Order of Teaching""; ""1.4 Explanation on the Level of One�s Own Time""; ""1.5 A Theological Qualification""; ""2 Questions about Each Emphasis""; ""3 Dogma and Mystery""; ""4 Theological Doctrines""; ""1 The Position""; ""2 Criteria of Theological Doctrines""; ""3 Closure: The Example of Operative Grace""; ""4 Analogy: The Example of Emanatio Intelligibilis""

""5 Practical Consequences: The Example of Preferential Option""""5 Categories""; ""1 Transposition""; ""2 Integration with Contemporary Developments""; ""3 Relation of General and Special Categories""; ""4 Summary to This Point""; ""6 Mediation""; ""7 Structure""; ""1 The Thesis""; ""2 The Four-point Hypothesis""; ""3 Previous Discussion on the Issue""; ""4 A Proposal""; ""5 History and the Special Categories""; ""6 A Distinction""; ""7 Glimpsing Some Implications""; ""8 Anticipations""; ""1 An Open but Continuous Future""; ""2 The Ontology of Meaning""; ""3 Anticipations of Content""

""9 The Question of Ground""""1 The Issue""; ""2 Lonergan on Foundations""; ""3 Categories""; ""4 Conversion and Foundations""; ""4.1 Intellectual Conversion""; ""4.2 Moral Conversion""; ""4.3 Religious Conversion""; ""4.4 Psychic Conversion""; ""5 Expanding the Notion of Psychic Conversion""; ""5.1 The Basic Thesis""; ""5.2 Related Considerations""; ""6 The Question of Truth""; ""10 System and History""; ""1 Developing Synthesis""; ""2 System as Witness""; ""3 History as Mediated Object of Systematic Theology""; ""3.1 Data from the Lonergan Archives""

""3.2 Lonergan on the Dialectic of History""""3.3 The Psyche and the Normative Source of Meaning""; ""3.4 Dialectic and the Scale of Values""; ""3.5 Complicating the Structure""; ""3.6 Systematic Theology as a Theory of History""; ""4 Theology as Praxis""; ""5 Concluding Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-238) and index.

ISBN:

9786611991784

9781487591502

1487591500

9781281991782

1281991783

9781442683297

1442683295

OCLC:

923069537