Review article

Fundamental Presumptions of the Protestant Notion of the Task of the Theologian and Theology in Relation to the Community of Believers

Lidija Matošević orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-7931 ; Theological Faculty Matija Vlačić-Ilirik, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This article presents the fundamental assumptions of the protestant understanding of the task of the theologian in regard to the community of believers. It starts from the definition of the Word of God. Then it differentiates between Jesus Christ as the Word of God in it very sense, the Word of God in the written form (The Holy Scriptures) as a testimony of Jesus Christ and the Word of God in the proclamation of the community. As part of this topic the article considers the role of the theologian with regard to the community of believers. The role of the theologian is seen to be two-fold. First, the theologian’s task is to better interpret, differentiate and argumentatively support the proclamation of the Church.
However, seeing that the proclamation of the community of believers is always human speech and as such is prone to fault, the task of the theologian is always to question the community to what measure is its proclamation truly the word of Jesus Christ directed to the man of today. This refers to the so-called question about the correspondence of the Church’s proclamation to Jesus Christ as the Word of God. The criterion for this judgement then is the Holy Scripture.

Keywords

the Word of God; the community of believers; the Church; the proclamation; Holy Scripture; testimony; canon; question of correspondence

Hrčak ID:

63028

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/63028

Publication date:

30.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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