Doctrine of God

The doctrine of God (Latin: De Deo ) is one of the classic treatises (subject areas) of Christian dogmatics .

The Christian doctrine of God is based on the salvation-historical self-disclosure of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. After the preliminary epistemological questions in the prolegomena have been clarified , in the more recent Catholic tradition in fundamental theology , the doctrine of God normally opens up material dogmatics. From a trinity theological perspective, it deals with the essence and characteristics of God as they are presented in biblical tradition and developments in the history of dogma and theology.

Important topics of the doctrine of God are: the natural knowledge of God or the proof of God , transcendence and immanence of God, the Trinity , monotheism , atheism and the denial of the existence of God.

literature

• Matthias Haudel: Doctrine of God. The meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity for theology, church and world, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / UTB, Göttingen 2015, 2nd edition 2018. ISBN 978-3-8252-4970-0 .
• Matthias Haudel: The self-disclosure of the Triune God. Basis of an ecumenical understanding of revelation, God and the church (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology 110), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, double edition ISBN 978-3-525-56338-0 .
• Eberhard Jüngel : God as the secret of the world. To justify the theology of the crucified Christ in the dispute between theism and atheism . 8th edition Mohr, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150388-7 .
• Hans Küng : Does God Exist? Answer to the question of God in modern times . 3rd edition Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-22144-0 .
• Jürgen Moltmann : Trinity and Kingdom of God. To the doctrine of God . 3rd edition Kaiser Verlag, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-579-01930-9 .
• Karlheinz Ruhstorfer (ed.): God's teaching. Study theology, Module 7 , UTB, Paderborn a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-3896-4
• Karlheinz Ruhstorfer : Doctrine of God. Present belief thinking. Systematic Theology , Volume 2, Paderborn a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-77054-7
• Alex Stock : Poetic Dogmatics . Doctrine of God . Vol. 1 Orte , Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-71335-3 ; Vol. 2 names , ISBN 978-3-506-72945-3 Paderborn 2005; Vol. 3 pictures , Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76449-2 .
• Andreas Völker: A god for all cases. The Grammar of God (Faith and Life; Vol. 56). LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10823-4 .

Web links

• Herbert Fronhofen: Doctrine of God , selected bibliography
• Andreas Benk : Concealment of God and Constructs of Theology , multimedia lecture, Stuttgart 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthias Haudel: Faith in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. German National Library, p. 9 , accessed on August 22, 2018 (from: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt - issue 5/2008).