Orthodoxy, Process and Product - Paperback

by M. Lamberigts (Editor), L. Boeve (Editor), T. Merrigan (Editor)

From 2002-2008, three research groups from the departments of
systematic theology and church history at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven,
joined forces in an interdisciplinary project, entitled "Orthodoxy: Process
and Product". The aim of the project was a "church-historical and
systematic-theological study of the determination of truth in church and
theology". The present volume contains contributions from all senior
members of the project research group. The contributions are the result of a
research conference in 2006, in which both the question of the nature of truth
as such, and the process of determination of theological truth was approached
from many different angles. Thus, questions from philosophy, systematic theology
and history of church and theology are discussed, including such themes as the
implications of various philosophical theories of truth for theology, the
question of religious pluralism and its ramifications for theological
truth-claims, theological truth claims in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa,
Augustine, John Driedo, and at the Second Vatican Council. In addition, the
meta-question of the relationship between the historical and the systematic
aspects of theological truth and the way in which the historical and systematic
theological disciplines interact play an important role in this volume.