Ruminations of an Irascible Hermit.: April 2018

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Theologies of God

Often when studying and reading about theology you see in different eras there as different aspects of theology or spiritualities that are focused on.

Often you will see theologians come up with new categories of theology that they feel we have lost touch with ie.. Margaret Barker has Temple Theology and there was another guy today I read who has Ascension Theology.

This led me to think if I was to write a book to explain and outline of different aspects of Theology this would be my list :

Negative Theology

Trinitarian theology

Creation Theology

Covenant Theology

Temple Theology

Then specifics aspects of the Paschal Mystery which is our Salvation in the Christ Event that I would break down as:

Incarnational theology

Childhood theology

Hidden years theology

Passion theology

Holy Saturday theology

Resurrection theology

Pentecost theology

Ascension theology

Parousia theology

These are all aspects of different devotional spirituality that different people will individually relate to on a personal level, yet all leading to Union with Christ, our Bridegroom - the Alpha and Omega

Sunday, April 1, 2018

My Redeemer lives!!

Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

Disclaimer

Please note. I am a Catholic layman, not a qualified theologian or philosopher. What I say and write here are my own personal thoughts and ideas, although I always try to conform my writings to the Magisterium of the Church.

I- with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the symbol of faith: namely,

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

With firm faith I believe as well everything contained in God's word, written or handed down in tradition and proposed by the church--whether in solemn judgment or in the ordinary and universal Magisterium--as divinely revealed and called for faith.

I also firmly accept and hold each and every thing that is proposed by that same church definitively with regard to teaching concerning faith or morals.

What is more, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman pontiff or the college of bishops enunciate when they exercise the authentic Magisterium even if they proclaim those teachings in an act that is not definitive.