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St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
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Method in Theology 3 x 2 is _____. God is _____. A rose is _____.
Karl Barth  (1886-1968) St. Augustine  (354-430) “ If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.” “ Theology means taking rational trouble over the mystery....  If we are unwilling to take the trouble, neither shall we know what we mean when we say that we are dealing with the mystery of God.”
Fr. Herbert McCabe, O.P. (1926-2001) Stanley Hauerwas (1940 - ) Thomas Aquinas is “the most agnostic theologian in the Western Christian tradition.”  “ Recognition of truthful speech begins when readers identify the words they encounter as an honest expression of life’s complexities.  The theological trick is to show that speaking honestly of the complexities of life requires words that speak of God…. The work of the theologian is word work, or , … ‘working with words in the light of faith.’ .. In fact, faith is nothing more than the words we use to speak of God.  And yet the God to whom and about whom we speak defies the words we use.  Such defiance seems odd, because the God about whom we speak is, we believe, found decisively in Jesus of Nazareth, the very Word of God.  Still, it seems that the nearer God draws to us, the more we discover that we know not what we say when we say ‘God.’”
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Class1

  • 1. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
  • 2.
  • 3. Method in Theology 3 x 2 is _____. God is _____. A rose is _____.
  • 4. Karl Barth (1886-1968) St. Augustine (354-430) “ If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.” “ Theology means taking rational trouble over the mystery.... If we are unwilling to take the trouble, neither shall we know what we mean when we say that we are dealing with the mystery of God.”
  • 5. Fr. Herbert McCabe, O.P. (1926-2001) Stanley Hauerwas (1940 - ) Thomas Aquinas is “the most agnostic theologian in the Western Christian tradition.” “ Recognition of truthful speech begins when readers identify the words they encounter as an honest expression of life’s complexities. The theological trick is to show that speaking honestly of the complexities of life requires words that speak of God…. The work of the theologian is word work, or , … ‘working with words in the light of faith.’ .. In fact, faith is nothing more than the words we use to speak of God. And yet the God to whom and about whom we speak defies the words we use. Such defiance seems odd, because the God about whom we speak is, we believe, found decisively in Jesus of Nazareth, the very Word of God. Still, it seems that the nearer God draws to us, the more we discover that we know not what we say when we say ‘God.’”
  • 6.
  • 7.