Chairman: TOWARD A CRITICISM OF THEOLOGICAL REASON: TIME AND TIMELESSNESS AS PRIMORDIAL PRESUPPOSITIONS

The doctrine of the Trinity: God's being is in becoming

A criticism of theological reason : time and timelessness as primordial presuppositions

THE CONCEPT OF DIVINE LOVE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GOD-WORLD RELATIONSHIP

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The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship

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The Lord and Giver of Life: The person and work of the Holy Spirit in the trinitarian theology of Colin E Gunton

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The Spirit as the Lord and the Giver of Life: Recovering Relational Pneumatology and Its Significance for Being Church in Postcolonial Nigeria

The territory indicated by my title is impossibly vast, and some delimitations are in order at the beginning. What follows does not attempt any kind of thorough or nuanced historical analysis of the great tangle of issues to which the terms of the title refer. ‘Hermeneutics’ and ‘modern theology’ don't exist as simple entities; the terms are shorthand ways of identifying very complex traditions of thought and cultural practices, and a serious attempt to trace those traditions and the variations in their relationship would be little short of a history of Western Christian thought since the rise of nominalism. What is offered here is more restricted and precise, chiefly an essay in Christian dogmatics. At its simplest, my proposal is that the Christian activity of reading the Bible is most properly (that is, Christianly) understood as a spiritual affair, and accordingly as a matter for theological description. That is to say, a Christian description of the Christian reading of the Bible will be the kind of description which talks of God and therefore talks of all other realities sub specie divinitatis. There is certainly an historical corollary to this proposal — namely, the need for some account of why the dominant traditions of Western Protestantism (and more recently of Western Catholicism) have largely laid aside, or at least lost confidence in, this kind of dogmatic depiction of the church's reading of the Bible, replacing it with, or annexing it to, hermeneutical theory of greater or lesser degrees of sophistication and greater or lesser degrees of theological content.

The doctrine of the Trinity: God's being is in becoming

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A criticism of theological reason : time and timelessness as primordial presuppositions

The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship

The Lord and Giver of Life: The person and work of the Holy Spirit in the trinitarian theology of Colin E Gunton

The Spirit as the Lord and the Giver of Life: Recovering Relational Pneumatology and Its Significance for Being Church in Postcolonial Nigeria

Hermeneutics in Modern Theology: Some Doctrinal Reflections

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