How Jürgen Moltmann Reads and Interprets the Bible (January 31, 2017)

How do we know that we understand the Bible when we read it? The word "hermeneutics" refers to the way we read and interpret the Bible, and if our hermeneutical approach is wrong, then we will not understand the Bible. Often disagreements in theology come down to people reading the […]

Related: Church Dogmatics, hermeneutics, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, material criticism, matter of Scripture, Sachkritik, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas

Jürgen Moltmann on Unfinished Summas and Natural Theology (July 15, 2014)

Unfinished Barcelona Cathedral (Sagrada) Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is 8,000 pages and unfinished. Thomas Aquinas' great theological system, The Summa Theologica, is unfinished too. All the medieval summas are unfinished in the same way as the medieval summas are unfinished. The post-magesterial reformers of the 16th and 17th century also produced […]

Related: CD IV/3, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics IV/3, Emil Brunner, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Natural Theology, Summa Theologica, systematic theology, Thomas Aquinas, Tony Jones, Universalism

Philip Melanchthon against Thomas Aquinas: Do the sacraments benefits others besides the recipients? (March 30, 2012)

In Melanchthon's Loci, he says that the belief that the Mass benefits others besides the recipient originated in Thomas' Summa, here's the quotation from Loci:  "All Masses are godless, therefore, except those by which consciences are encouraged for the strengthening of faith. A sacrifice is what we offer to God, but we do […]

Related: Benefits, Didache, Eucharist, John Calvin, Loci Communes, lord's supper, Philip Melanchthon, Sacrifice, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas