The person of Christ quite literally puts the Christ in Christian theology
Standard systematic theological categories:
- theology (proper) – doctrine of theos|God
- anthropology – doctrine of anthropos|’Man’
- christology – doctrine of christos|Christ
- ecclesiology – doctrine of ekklesia|Church
- pneumatology – doctrine of pneuma|(Holy) Spirit
- eschatology – doctrine of eschaton|Last Things
Theological category summaries with reason and logic alone:
- theology proper – omni-God d(th)eism of course; not sure what this God actually does other than just be really omni-everything
- anthropology – substantive view, humans = the ones who can reason
- christology – a really, really well-known and good human
- ecclesiology – people supposed to believe certain things and act in certain ways
- pneumatology – that which helps us rise above bodily limitations and think better
- eschatology – spirit leaves body and dwells eternally in heaven
Theological category summaries in light of Christ:
- theology proper – a triune community with divine self-donating love at its heart
- anthropology – created good to become like Jesus Christ
- christology – the crucified and risen God-Man and reference point for all things
- ecclesiology – the cross-bearing community of new life for the world
- pneumatology – the Spirit who conforms us to the image of Christ
- eschatology – all things in heaven and earth summed up and renewed in Christ
“crux sola est nostra theologia” (The cross alone is our theology) Martin Luther
And where is the doctrine of the Father in all this I see the Son and the Spirit?
Pop next-door and ask Myk?? :D
But yes, perhaps Christology, Pneumatology and an additional category of “Pateriology” should under, with or as the category of Theology? :)
The lack of such a title, suggests to me an unbalanced understanding of Trinity, that’s “all” ;)
NB. “patrology” is already taken (in at least some circles) for Patristics :) Maybe some Latin derived term… otherwise the theology of the first person is assumed/subsumed in the study of God while that of the second and third persons is not…
Abba-ology.
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