Dogmatics I

• The name, concept and content of dogmatics; creed and dogma; the relation of dogmatics to the other branches of theology; its four characteristics: according to contents reproductive and productive, in its form scientific and existential
• The nature of the theological language: analogy, metaphor, accomodation.
• The revelation: Deus absconditus – Deus revelatus, revelatio generalis - revelatio specialis; continuous or closed revelation.
• The realities thought to be the sources of revelation: the Holy Scripture, the ratio (deism, racionalism), tradition (one or two sources?), the religious experience..
• The threefold form of the Divine Word: the revealed Word (Jesus Christ); the written Word; the preached Word; Scriptura Sacra sui ipsius interpres
• The unity of the two Testaments; the legitimacy and limits of critical Bible-analysis.
• The notion of faith; faith as knowledge and confidence
• Faith and intellect; the faces of the unbelief.
• The divine attributes; the divine suffering; the problem of atheism.
• The doctrine concerning Trinity: its definition; biblical background; antitrinitarian concepcions; the problem of filioque.
• The doctrine of creation and divine providence
• Unde malum? – the problem of evil (Irenaeus, Augustinus, Barth); miracle and laws of the nature.
• The man(kind) – result of creation and/or evolution?
• The man as Gods creature: The contents and limits of the doctrine of imago dei (Gods image in the man).