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After Dogma: Reinhard H¨tter’s Challenge to Contemporary Theology: A Review Essay
Author(s) -
Mangina Joseph L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/1463-1652.00044
Subject(s) - doctrine , philosophy , theology , pathos , situated , christianity , catholic theology , natural theology , epistemology , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence
Reinhard Hütter’s Suffering Divine Things: Theology as Church Practice constitutes an important new proposal for relating theology, doctrine and the life of the church. The central problematic is posed by the privatization of Christianity in the modern world, as exemplified in the classic debate between Karl Barth and Erik Peterson on the status of dogma. Against modern theological constructivism, Hütter argues that theology must be situated within the overall pathos of life in the Spirit, concretely mediated through church practices and the dogma that defines them as a distinctive ‘public’. Despite its sometimes thin exegetical basis, the work offers a fresh, ecumenically promising account of the theological endeavour.