RT Article
T1 Approaching the Holy with Thomas B. Dozeman and Rudolf Otto
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 64
IS 3
SP 279
OP 298
A1 Shah, Bruno M.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785580019
AB This article considers Thomas B. Dozeman's ecumenically orientated and biblically situated theology of ministry (Holiness and Ministry, 2008) by assessing his utilisation of Rudolf Otto's ‘idea of the holy’. Despite significant promise, basic obstacles to appreciating Dozeman's theology of ministry appear to a Catholic perspective. In order to understand the reason for this tension, Dozeman's methodology is analysed. Because of the particular way in which he incorporates the work of Rudolf Otto on the nature of holiness, Dozeman is unable to present a model of ministry wherein ‘word’ and ‘sacrament’ exist in harmony, or a model of ministry which looks to Jesus Christ for its formal type – two issues which any Christian theology of ministry must find problematic. In general, ecumenical and ministerial theologies are ill served by methodologies which are based in a transcendental anthropology of holy experience.
DO 10.1017/S0036930611000123