El tema bíblico en la enseñanza de la teología sistemática
Vatican II, in its Decree « Optatam totius », prescribes devoting principal attention in teaching systematic theology to the thematic study of Scripture. Such priority flows directly from the Council's doctrine on the Scriptures as the Word of God, set forth in the Dogmatic Constitution « Dei v...
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1969
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Gregorianum
Year: 1969, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 507-542 |
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| Summary: | Vatican II, in its Decree « Optatam totius », prescribes devoting principal attention in teaching systematic theology to the thematic study of Scripture. Such priority flows directly from the Council's doctrine on the Scriptures as the Word of God, set forth in the Dogmatic Constitution « Dei verbum ». Given as a didactic norm, it implies the final abandonment of the old « regressive » method (i. e., starting from given dogmatic formulas and then searching for their proofs in the Scripture) in favour of a new « progressive » method. Thematic study of Scripture presupposes exegesis; it belongs to the so-called « biblical theology », in the methods and requirements of which it fully participates, by investigating and expounding one particular point of doctrine along its entire development through the O. T. and the N. T. Such investigation requires that the theologian does his work in an existential situation of faith, admitting the divine inspiration of the Scriptures. He has then to interpret the biblical data in a language intelligible to the modern mind. Finally, in order to adhere to the genuine viewpoint of the Scripture, one has to search for the truth of the revealed data in the light of the whole of the divine dispensation, the total fulfilment of which is the person and the work of Jesus Christ. Thematic study of Scripture is not only the first step of the « intellectus fidei »; it remains also the permanent norm to which the whole process of theological reflexion constantly has to refer. This should show the relativity of the statements of patristic and scholastic theology by revealing the philosophical elements they contain. Even the understanding of dogmatic formulas has to be regulated by the « norma non normata », that is, by the revealed datum as a whole; by so doing, one will be led to rethink and reformulate these formulas. The last step, indeed, of systematic theology is to elaborate an understanding of the Word of God, significant for modern man. Such normative function the thematic study of Scripture can only perform it, if the teachers of systematic theology have received special training in scriptural studies and if they pursue the actual results of exegetical research. Indeed, the task to introduce students into the thematic study of Scripture and to make it « the very soul of theology » — that is the point of continuous reference in all systematic theological work — rests upon the professor of systematic theology. Theology must stress, above all, the understanding of divine Revelation — as profoundly as possible and in categories and in a language of our time. |
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