Doctrine

About: Doctrine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21901 publications have been published within this topic receiving 204282 citations.

Pluralism, direct effect, and the ultimate say: On the relationship between international and domestic constitutional law

Abstract: The article addresses the question of whether the metaphor of the “ legal pyramid ” as the structural representation of the relationships between international and domestic law should be deconstructed on account of the internationalization of constitutional law. On a theoretical level, it argues that the pyramid is a concept, linked to Kelsenian monism, which has outlived its usefulness. But dualism should also be overtaken by a theory of legal pluralism. On a doctrinal level, the linkage of the orders by the doctrine of self-executing international norms should be reconstructed and understood as the balancing of constitutional principles. A third thesis refers to the value judgments implicit in the question, holding that it should be answered within the domestic constitutional process, according to the experience, expectations, and convictions of the various constitutional constituencies. Given the state of international law, it would be preferable to have the capacity legally to limit the effect within the domestic legal order of a norm or an act under international law if that norm or act confl icts sharply with constitutional principles

Models of Revelation

Abstract: In Models of Revelation Avery Dulles explores the doctrine at the very center of Christianity: that Christianity is based on the world of God as given to the church. Following the format of his earlier Models of the Church, Dulles derives five models of character of this much-neglected theme of revelation. He considers revelation as doctrine, as history, as inner experience, as dialectical presence, and as new awareness.

The Theological Imagination: Constructing the Concept of God

Abstract: In this challenging work, Gordon Kaufman asserts that the prime task of theology is the imaginative construction of the doctrine of God. Kaufman maintains that both the absoluteness of the divinity and our own necessity demand that we construct the doctrine of God critically and in a manner appropriate to our own time and place. In thorough examinations of God and theology, Christ and christology, and of the ultimate foundations of religious thought, he shows how this construction can be accomplished faithfully and in full realization of our own humanity.