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Title: II' Systems of Theology


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II. Systems of Theology
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II. Systems of Theology
  • A system
  • is a scheme for organizing and presenting
    Christian truth.
  • is based on a few key ideas.
  • grows out of the study of Scripture.
  • influences the study of Scripture.

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II. Systems of Theology
  • Questions to ask of each system
  • What is the key idea?
  • What are the major presuppositions?
  • Where does this system see clearly?
  • Where does this system see poorly?
  • What do we see more clearly about our own
    presuppositions when we look at this system?

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II. Systems of Theology
  • Patristic Theology
  • Medieval Sacramental Theology
  • Byzantine Mystical Theology
  • Reformation Theology
  • Pietistic Theology
  • Modernistic Theology
  • Dialectical Theology
  • Theologies of Transformation
  • Theologies of Escape

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II. A. Systems of Theology
  • Patristic Theology

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II. A. Patristic Theology
  • Context
  • Rejection (?) of a Greek Platonic thought world
  • Death and corruption as the major problems of
    humanity

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II. A. Patristic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Deification/divinization

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II. A. Patristic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea Deification/divinization
  • Foundations
  • Gods life is the source of our life
  • Gods downward movement enables our upward
    movement
  • Union of divine and human in Christ is the source
    of our deification

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II. A. Patristic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea Deification/divinization
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Incorruption and holiness
  • Sonship (but what kind?)

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II. B. Systems of Theology
  • Medieval Sacramental Theology

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II. B. Medieval Sacramental Theology
  • Context
  • Institutional view of the Church
  • Church as the locus of salvation
  • Sacraments as the vehicles of salvation

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II. B. Medieval Sacramental Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Ones state before God is determined by ones
    relation to the Church.

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II. B. Medieval Sacramental Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • State before God Relation to the Church
  • Foundations
  • The Church continues Christs mediatorial work.
  • Grace is the impartation of actual righteousness.

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II. B. Medieval Sacramental Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • State before God Relation to the Church
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Christian life is one of states
  • Sacraments maintain a state of grace throughout
    life

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II. C. Systems of Theology
  • Byzantine Mystical Theology

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II. C. Byzantine Mystical Theology
  • Context
  • Shaped by the monastic strand of thought
  • Stress on human striving in salvation

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II. C. Byzantine Mystical Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Aspiring to union with God

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II. C. Byzantine Mystical Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Aspiring to union with God
  • Foundations
  • Divine darkness and unknowability
  • Vision of God, not knowledge of God

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II. C. Byzantine Mystical Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Aspiring to union with God
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Christian life is a journey, not a state.
  • Sacraments, saints, and icons beckon us to follow
    them in the journey.

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II. D. Systems of Theology
  • Reformation Theology

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II. D. Reformation Theology
  • Context
  • Rejection of the merit-based system of Medieval
    theology
  • Rejection of the Church as the focus
  • A legal approach to theology

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II. D. Reformation Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Let God be God.

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II. D. Reformation Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea Let God be God.
  • Foundations
  • Revival of biblical scholarship
  • Focus on God himself, rather than on the Church

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II. D. Reformation Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea Let God be God.
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • God is the source of salvation. (sola gratia,
    sola Christo, sola crucis theologia)
  • God is the focus of Christian life. (sola fide,
    soli Deo gloria)

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II. E. Systems of Theology
  • Pietistic Theology

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II. E. Pietistic Theology
  • Context
  • The deadness of Lutheran orthodoxy
  • The discovery of the individual (the Cartesian
    shift)

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II. E. Pietistic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Personal, individual experience of God

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II. E. Pietistic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Personal, individual experience of God
  • Foundations
  • A new view of sola Scriptura
  • The right of each Christian to interpret the
    Bible

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II. E. Pietistic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Personal, individual experience of God
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Biblicism
  • Focus on the heart, not the mind
  • Shift in the doctrine of salvation
  • Emphasis on evangelism and missions

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II. F. Systems of Theology
  • Modernistic Theology

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II. F. Modernistic Theology
  • Context
  • Rationalism/the Enlightenment
  • Romanticism

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II. F. Modernistic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • The universality and progress of human religious
    experience

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II. F. Modernistic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Universality and progress of experience
  • Foundations
  • Gods immanence
  • Universal religious sentiment

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II. F. Modernistic Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Universality and progress of experience
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Focus on personal feeling and objective
    historical truth
  • Adaptation of the faith to modern culture
  • Attempts to realize the kingdom of God

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II. G. Systems of Theology
  • Dialectical Theology

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II. G. Dialectical Theology
  • Context
  • WW I and the shattering of a belief in progress
  • Rejection of natural theology and Nazism

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II. G. Dialectical Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • God is wholly other, yet he has revealed himself
    in Christ.

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II. G. Dialectical Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • God is wholly other, and yet revealed.
  • Foundations
  • Gods absolute transcendence
  • Emphasis on paradox
  • Existential, experiential focus

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II. G. Dialectical Theology
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • God is wholly other, and yet revealed.
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Gods utter sovereignty
  • Christocentricity
  • Still a focus on humanity (?)

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II. H. Systems of Theology
  • Theologies of Transformation

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II. H. Theologies of Transformation
  • Context
  • Interest in apocalyptic eschatology
  • Emphasis on the particulars
  • Liberation movements among women, the poor, and
    blacks

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II. H. Theologies of Transformation
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Tension between the present age and the future
    Kingdom of God

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II. H. Theologies of Transformation
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Tension between present and future
  • Foundations
  • Transcendence future
  • Hope as the primary motivation
  • Theology proceeds from action to reflection.
  • Theology must begin from the voices of the
    oppressed.

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II. H. Theologies of Transformation
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Tension between present and future
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Hope is collective and outward.
  • Salvation is expressed in terms of its earthly
    component.

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II. I. Systems of Theology
  • Theologies of Escape

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II. I. Theologies of Escape
  • Context
  • Revivalism
  • Rejection of modernism
  • Rejection of the world

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II. I. Theologies of Escape
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • The need of all people for individual experience
    of salvation

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II. I. Theologies of Escape
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Individual experience of salvation
  • Foundations
  • Authority of Scripture
  • Understanding of sin in personal, legal terms
  • View of faith which stresses the individual

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II. I. Theologies of Escape
  • Context
  • Key Idea
  • Individual experience of salvation
  • Foundations
  • Implications
  • Scripture is understood modernistically and
    pietistically.
  • Sharp distinction between beginning and
    continuation of faith
  • Tendency to absolutize ones own experience

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II. Evaluating Systems
  • Four Temptations
  • An unexamined eclecticism
  • An assertion that we cannot judge between systems
  • An assumption that systems which sound foreign
    are not Christian
  • An assumption that we are where we want to be
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