Category Analogia Fidei

Theology as Christology: Theology Ought to be Based on an Analogy of Faith Rather than Being

July 13, 2019 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Barth, David Congdon · 4 Comments

There is an ancient way, even a via antiqua for doing theology in the history of the Church. This fact is undeniable, and is something to praise the Lord for. But this doesn’t mean that this ancient way is the absolute and Divinely sanctioned way for doing theology. Some refer to ‘the Great Tradition of […]

Bone and Flesh of the Christ: An Imaginary Grounded in the Bloody Cross for Knowledge of God

March 7, 2019 · by · in Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Faith, Christology, Classical Theism, Theological Epistemology, Theological Ontology, Theology Of Glory, Theology Of Retrieval, Theology Of The Cross · 4 Comments

Something I just tweeted and want to expand upon: “If Heaven and the coming eschaton are pervaded by the face of Christ, all the way through, then what use do I have for discursive and abstract theologies that only attempt to work their way up to Him from other places. Why not start and end […]

The Idol-Mind: Barth’s Thinking on A Priori Theologies and the ‘Middle Position’

February 4, 2019 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Barth, Theological Epistemology, Theological Ontology

What do we know of God? Is there some sort of vestiges of God in us, such that contemplation of God is an inherent capacity built into humanity? The Great Tradition of the Church has seemingly operated with a grandiose Yes, to this question. But what about us Protestants? We say we affirm a doctrine […]

Radicalized Christus Praesens as the Alternative to the Natural Knowledge of God Posited by the Dubyian and Thomist Tradition

January 4, 2019 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Theo-Anthropology, Theological Epistemology, Theological Ontology

Not to continue to harp on Steve Duby (I mean, I like him, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this), but let me very briefly respond to another point of his in regard to that rejoinder he wrote to Peter Leithart’s critique of his book. Duby has offered us a service in succinctly […]

On Becoming a Christian; Knowledge of God; And Analogy in Constructive Engagement with Søren

November 24, 2018 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Andrew Torrance, Kierkegaard

There is no analogy for God, or “Godness” without God’s graciousness to stoop down to us in our stuttering tongues and depraved hearts, and therein meet us with the possibility to know Him in a corresponding way in and through the analogy and bond of Christ’s faith for us. So, Christ’s faith in His vicarious […]

Knowing God through the Wood of the Cross Rather than from the Metaphysics of the ‘catholics’

November 4, 2018 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Barth, Martin Luther, T. F. Torrance · 6 Comments

I would have to say that I am obsessed with ‘knowledge of God,’ and how from a Christian perspective that is obtained. I have blogged, and written elsewhere, much on this locus; particularly as that gets into what is called the analogia entis and analogia fidei/relationis. I really don’t know why I’m so obsessed with […]

The Analogy of Advent Rather Than The Analogy of Being: The “Christ-Myth” Demythologized

September 18, 2018 · by · in Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Faith, Barth, David Congdon, Eberhard Jüngel, Robert Dale Dawson, Rudolf Bultmann · 1 Comment

A large number of analyses come up short by dwelling upon the historical question, often falsely construing Barth’s inversion of the order of the historical enterprise and the resurrection of Jesus as an aspect of his historical skepticism. For Barth the resurrection of Jesus is not a datum of the sort to be analyzed and understood, by […]

Christian Theology Grounded in Faith Rather than Worldview or Apologetics

September 12, 2018 · by · in Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Faith, David Congdon, Dialectical Theology, Evangelical Calvinism, Modern Theology, Rudolf Bultmann · 1 Comment

Worldviews are important to understand, to a point. But when worldview is confused with Christian faith and theology problems of idolatrous heights begin to develop; at least according to Rudolf Bultmann. I want to share further, by referencing David Congdon’s work, on how Bultmann not only distinguished between faith and worldview, but also between talk […]

Semper Reformanda-Always Reforming Regulated by the Eschatological Life of God For Us In Jesus Christ

September 9, 2018 · by · in Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Faith, Classical Theism, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, David Congdon · 2 Comments

See, I don’t agree with much of David Congdon’s conclusions (as he has continued to develop personally-dogmatically), but I do agree with him on the Christian reality being an eschatological reality and what that ought to do to the theological endeavor. What that ought to do is ground theological practice in the reality that God […]

Understanding How We Come to Know God: Through The Being of God in Christ For Us; Or Through Human Being Come to God By Created and Uncreated Grace?

August 21, 2018 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Barth, David Congdon · 3 Comments

How do we know God? There are traditions for answering that very question; I follow a particular tradition in contrast to another prominent tradition. This post will explore this question by providing some lengthy description of its unfolding in 20th century modern theology. We will read along with David Congdon, at length, as he describes Karl […]

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