Quotes About Dogmatics

To define the limits of the Kenosis, and to adjust it to the immutability of the Godhead and the intertrinitarian process, lies beyond the sphere of exegesis and belongs to speculative dogmatics.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

seems to me that Christian dogmatics must be an explication of Christ's activity, the more so since Christ established no teaching but was active. He didn't teach that there was a redemption for man, he redeemed men. A Muhammadan dogmatics (sit venia verbo)21 would be an explication of Muhammad's teaching, but a Christian dogmatics is an explication of Christ's activity.

dogmatics is that delightful activity in which the Church praises God by ordering its thinking towards the gospel of Christ.

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.