The article addresses the question of values in dogmatic theology and advances the thesis that dogmatics does not proceed from an autonomous order of values, but from the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Values are therefore not primary normative categories, but secondary expressions of participation in divine reality. The author first demonstrates the limitations of contemporary axiological discourse on values and then, through the Christology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, develops the concept of Christuswirklichkeit, in which the good is understood not as an abstract norm but as participation in Christ. In the second part, the argument is deepened through the Trinitarian theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar: the good has its ontological foundation in the eternal life of the triune God as a communion of love and mutual self-giving.
[Embodied Truth: Jesus Christ and the Theological Justification of the Church] The Church refers to Jesus Christ as its foundation, but all too often fails to recognize that he existed in a precarious bodily form and fostered community in a disturbing way. The book addresses this enduring Christological challenge to th...
The Full Gospel doctrine and the experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit play a significant role in the construction of Pentecostal ecclesiology. In this study, the author proposes the Green Church, a concept he developed within the deep ecclesiology of Pentecostalism, to broaden the implications of the Full Gos...
Jefri Hina Remi Katu· Journal of Pentecostal Theol...· 0 citations
This essay retraces the development of the creeds and confessions to understand their continued need in Lutheran theology. It is argued that confession of faith takes place under the duress caused by receiving God’s self-revelation. Confession is never merely the preservation of a past statement but germinates within t...
Patrick Welton· Promissio: A Journal of Conf...· 0 citations
This article investigates the epistemic foundation of religious violence through two Platonic dialogues: the Crito and the Euthyphro. The central hypothesis is that violence exercised in the name of the sacred does not derive from wickedness or absence of faith, but from its excess — specifically, from unexamined relig...
Eduardo Sales de Lima· Fronteiras - Revista de Teol...· 0 citations
ABSTRACT This article first explores the way that five Baptist theologians, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, present a Christology inherited from Chalcedon. Their own thought shows that while they are faithful to the formula of ‘one person, two natures’, they are driven to conclusions in which the mode...
The study examines the philosophical intelligibility of love through the concept of ordo amoris, in its anthropological and ethical dimensions. It proceeds from the insight that love is not merely an affective phenomenon, but an original order that structures human cognition, action, and responsibility. Drawing on Max...
L. Tóth· Studia Universitatis Babeș-B...· 0 citations
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