The person of Christ quite literally puts the Christ in Christian theology
Standard systematic theological categories:
- theology (proper) – doctrine of theos|God
- anthropology – doctrine of anthropos|’Man’
- christology – doctrine of christos|Christ
- ecclesiology – doctrine of ekklesia|Church
- pneumatology – doctrine of pneuma|(Holy) Spirit
- eschatology – doctrine of eschaton|Last Things
Theological category summaries with reason and logic alone:
- theology proper – omni-God d(th)eism of course; not sure what this God actually does other than just be really omni-everything
- anthropology – substantive view, humans = the ones who can reason
- christology – a really, really well-known and good human
- ecclesiology – people supposed to believe certain things and act in certain ways
- pneumatology – that which helps us rise above bodily limitations and think better
- eschatology – spirit leaves body and dwells eternally in heaven
Theological category summaries in light of Christ:
- theology proper – a triune community with divine self-donating love at its heart
- anthropology – created good to become like Jesus Christ
- christology – the crucified and risen God-Man and reference point for all things
- ecclesiology – the cross-bearing community of new life for the world
- pneumatology – the Spirit who conforms us to the image of Christ
- eschatology – all things in heaven and earth summed up and renewed in Christ
“crux sola est nostra theologia” (The cross alone is our theology) Martin Luther
5 replies on “theology”
And where is the doctrine of the Father in all this I see the Son and the Spirit?
Pop next-door and ask Myk?? :D
But yes, perhaps Christology, Pneumatology and an additional category of “Pateriology” should under, with or as the category of Theology? :)
The lack of such a title, suggests to me an unbalanced understanding of Trinity, that’s “all” ;)
NB. “patrology” is already taken (in at least some circles) for Patristics :) Maybe some Latin derived term… otherwise the theology of the first person is assumed/subsumed in the study of God while that of the second and third persons is not…
Abba-ology.
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