222606 VO Fundamental Theology and Theology of Religions
winter semester 2023/2024 | Last update: 20.11.2023 | Place course on memo listParticipants are familiar with basic discussions of fundamental theology, in particular the theology of religions, and can establish relationships to current challenges in the field of theological research.
Fundamental theology is the discipline that tirelessly faces the challenges that theology cannot and must not avoid. As such, it is a permanent polylogue between Church, God and world in the service of peace, freedom and justice.
Guided by these basic orientations, the lecture offers an overview of essential areas of fundamental theology and the theology of religions. After reflections on the scientific foundations of theology, we confront the classical 3 “doctrinae”—the questions of God, revelation and church—and try to relate these to contemporary challenges. These include the plural of religions, the claim of natural sciences to interpretation, the connection between religion and violence, etc.—the list is open, because we do not know which “signs of the times” still await us, which require an interpretation in the “light of the Gospel” (cf. Gaudium et Spes).
Lecture.
Oral exam. Subjects: Subjects of lecture, and own study of: Christoph Böttigheimer, Lehrbuch der Fundamentaltheologie: Die Rationalität der Gottes-, Offenbarungs- und Kirchenfrage, 3., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2016, 589–610.
General information on exams, dates and sign-on at the department: https://www.uibk.ac.at/systheol/lehre/pruefungen.html.en.
Böttigheimer, Christoph, Lehrbuch der Fundamentaltheologie. Freiburg: Herder, 32016.
Dupuis, Jacques, Unterwegs zu einer christlichen Theologie des religiösen Pluralismus. Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 2010.
Keller, Catherine, Über das Geheimnis. Gott erkennen im Werden der Welt. Freiburg: Herder, 2013.
Stosch, Klaus von, Einführung in die Komparative Theologie. Paderborn: Schönignh/UTB, 2021.
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