Controversial Theology

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In a broader sense, controversial theology is the theological dispute between a religious community and those of different faiths or those who deviate from within the church. Historically, the term describes the scientific arena of denominational disputes between Roman Catholic theology and Protestant theology since the Reformation . The theology of controversy moved in the field of tension between polemical and Irish forms.

Since the ecumenical movement was established in the 20th century, the concept of controversial theology has largely been felt to be out of date and is mostly only used historically.

history

In the Roman Catholic area, a distinction is sometimes made between pre- and post-Tridentine controversial theology . In retrospect , the theological examination of intra-Christian heresies and non-Christian religions in the old church and in the Middle Ages is sometimes also referred to as controversial theology . An important instrument for theological treatment of such disputes developed faith in the High Middle Ages, scholasticism , whose methods have played a major role in the confessional clashes after the Reformation.

From the controversial theology of the 17th century, the theological subject of dogmatics emerged within university theology . Even in the 20th century, the term “controversial theology” was used in various ways without any judgment for the theological-scientific processing of confessional differences, as evidenced by the subtitle Zeitschrift für Kontroverstheologie of the quarterly publication Catholica , published from 1932 . The Catholic theologian Otto Hermann Pesch was a full member of the Protestant theological department of the University of Hamburg from 1975 to 1997 as professor for “Systematics and Controversial Theology” .

Personalities

Well-known Catholic controversial theologians are:

Protestant controversial theologians:

See also

literature

  • Albert Pighius: Controversial theology of the Reformation time. Diss., Zurich 1940.
  • Heribert Schützeichel: The essence and object of the ecclesiastical teaching authority according to Thomas Stapleton. A contribution to the history of controversial theology in the 16th century. (Trier Theological Studies 20) Trier 1966.
  • Wilbirgis Klaiber: Catholic controversial theologians and reformers of the 16th century. A catalog raisonné. Münster / Westf 1978.
  • Christoph Dittrich: The pre-tridentine Catholic controversial theology and the Anabaptists: Cochläus - Eck - Fabri. Frankfurt (Main) 1991.
  • Ralf Kötter: Johannes Burgenhagen's doctrine of justification and Roman Catholicism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heribert Smolinsky : Controversial Theology . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 6 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, Sp. 333 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard Kösters: Controversial Theology. In: Karl Rahner (Ed.): Herders Theologisches Taschenlexikon. Volume 4, Freiburg 1972, p. 236.
  3. ↑ Heribert Smolinsky: Controversial Theology . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 6 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, Sp. 333 ff .