Review article
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.31.2.5
A dogmatic approach to the ecclesiology of Erik Peterson
Ivica Raguž
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Đakovo, Croatia
Josip Dolić
; Croatian Catholic Mission in Kempten, Kempten, Germany
Abstract
What is striking about Erik Peterson is the unity of his theological work and his life, as he dedicates his entire life to observing the Church. It is no coincidence that this spiritual inspiration led the Protestant theologian to convert to the Catholic faith. He combines the spiritual experience of church life with the demand for a visible apostolic Church with canonical and dogmatic authority. His academic interest primarily determines the connection between historical research and dogmatics as an ecclesiastical discussion within systematic theology and dogmatics. The first chapter analyzes the historical concept of the Church from its New Testament beginnings. The philological-historical analysis of the concept of the Church first opens the theological meaning of the First Letter to the Corinthians, as an essential characteristic of the Church. The second chapter, in the light of Revelation, discusses church dogma as the foundation of theological knowledge and argumentation, considering faith and obedience as phenomenological dimensions from the perspective of revelation. The third chapter examines the credibility of the Church through dogma as the essence of theology, as the authoritative authority and normative hermeneutical structure of theological statements on grounding ecclesiology in science. In the rereading of dogma, revelation, and the Church as dogmatic ecclesiology, Peterson’s understanding of theology is revealed as fragmentary, whose relevance is based on the fact that the unity of theology and its treatises is always being re-established.
Keywords
Church; theology; dogma; Holy Scripture; Tradition; revelation
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Publication date:
16.8.2023.
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