Dogma and Method

Dogmas are often seen as a kind of restriction that prevents development and restrains freedom of thought. However, the opposite is true. They help guide thinking and are also a hermeneutic key to reading human reality. The purpose of this volume is to show the paradoxically undogmatic nature of Christian dogmatics. From various perspectives, the contributors encourage a renewal of methodological consciousness within dogmatics. Their aim is to reopen the possibility of understanding the truths of faith in real dialogue with the world view provided by the achievements of other fields of knowledge, from the arts to the humanities and the sciences. Thus, the volume presents a symphonic, dialogical, integral dogmatics that provides an essential impetus for a theology that is committed to life, pastoral care and ecumenism.Robert J. Woźniak: Introduction: Dogmatics without Dogmatism

A. Theoretical Preliminaries of Interdisciplinarity in Dogmatic Theology
Robert J. Woźniak: Dogmatic Theology in an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Theoretical-methodological Prolegomena − Giulio Maspero: Trinitarian Ontology and the Epistemological Foundation of Dogmatic Theology

B. Hermeneutics of Doctrinal Texts - Historical Overview
Dariusz Kasprzak: Various Ways of Understanding Conciliar Dogmatic Formulas in Ancient Christianity − Piotr Roszak: Medieval Principles of Interpreting Doctrinal Texts − Janusz Królikowski: The Development of Dogmatic Theology in the Early Modern Period

C. Interdisciplinarity of Dogmatics ad extra
Tadeusz Pabjan: Dogmatics in the Context of Empirical Sciences − Lech Wołowski: From Cantor to Balthasar, or the Role of Paradox in Exact Sciences and Dogmatics − Miłosz Hołda: To Love God in an Analytic Way. On How Dogmatic Theology May Benefit from the Encounter with Analytic Theology − Andrzej Wierciński: Hermeneutics of the Dogma: Thinking from the Beginning and Thinking the Beginning − Jarosław Jagiełło: Methodological Renewal of Dogmatic Theology: An Existential-Anthropological Point of View − Paweł Rojek: Dogmatics and Metaphysics. Methodological Aspects of the Metaphysics of the Trinity and Trinitarian Ontology − Dariusz Kowalczyk: Transcendental Method in Dogmatic Theology − Michał Janocha: Art and Dogma. Panoramic Outline of the Issues from the Perspective of the Impact History − Jan Strumiłowski: Hermeneutics of a Dogma in the Context of Aesthetics − Jerzy Szymik: Credo et scribo ut intelligam. Theology and Literature - Interaction − Marek Lis: Theology and Film − Jacek Prusak: Psychology and Dogmatic Theology − Kamil M. Kaczmarek: Dogma from the Perspective of Evolutionary Sociology of Religion − Franciszek Longchamp de Berier: The Use of Law and Legal Studies for the Methodological Renewal of Dogmatic Theology

D. Interdisciplinarity of Dogmatics ad intra
Marcin Kowalski: Separation - Yes, Divorce - No. Challenges and Implications Resulting from the Methodological Development of Biblical Studies and Systematic Theology − Tadeusz Dola: The Identity of Fundamental Theology in Relation to Dogmatics − Krzysztof Porosło: The Significance of Liturgy for Dogmatic Theology − Wojciech Giertych: Dogmatic Theology and Moral Theology − Andrzej Draguła: Between Speculation and Practice. Pastoral Theology in the Perspective of Dogmatic Theology − Tadeusz Kałużny: Theology and Ecumenism − Zbigniew Kubacki: Comparative Theology. Subject of Research, Specific Features, and Methodology − Dariusz Gardocki: Liberation Theology as a New Way of Practicing Theology