Theological Method in the Era of Postmodernism   Cover Image

Metoda teologiczna w dobie postmodernistycznej
Theological Method in the Era of Postmodernism

Author(s): Andrzej Piotr Perzyński
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego (TNFS)

Summary/Abstract: Before analising some aspects of scientific rationality and there influences on the work of theologians, the Author takes up again the value this problem acquire at the mission of the Church. We are now living at cultural turning point that quicken the new attitudes even of the theologies. The first chapter on scientific rationality takes in consideration the following characteristics of the approach to the reality: thinking of the models and paradigms, relationship broken down by the object, the science as administration of communication, science as a research, progress for substitu- tion, to transform relationship between symbol and concept, relationship with the story, permeability of the different sciences. The second chapter on the theological rationality analyses first the vast theme of the cultural validity and then consider the theology as analisies of experiences of faith, theology as science and network of communication, theology as sapiential books that lead to silent, theology for models and paradigms, faith and historical events, theology and tradition.

  • Issue Year: 21/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 117-134
  • Page Count: 18