Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Just a note - not a real blog entry. If I were to do Christology as my first exam, it would be important to consider Jewish theological thinkers' understanding of the Christian doctrine of Incarnation. Although this might stray from the methodology focus, it would be vital for understanding the Christian content. And to be honest, there is no way to create a Christian theology of Judaism that has any integrity, if Jewish thinkers on this topic are not considered.
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Please explain:
ReplyDelete- First, second and third exam
- Methodology vs. content.
- the First exam of my Special Comprehensives is a history of a particular theology (ie. Christology, ecclesiology, soteriology, theological anthropology, doctrine of Creation, eschatology, etc.) It has to cover major works from the early Church fathers until the 19th century, and traces the development of a particular doctrine. The second exam is picking a major theologian and knowing his/her works in their entirety. The third exam is picking a contemporary issue and either knowing the issues/theologies that lead up to it or proposing some kind of new, fresh approach to it.
ReplyDelete-Methodology is *how* the argument is made, content is *what* the argument is about. So, a theological argument can be made by appealing to biblical sources, or appealing to tradition, or appealing to contemporary experience, or by using philosophy or reason or logic, or by relying on "revelation."