Luthardt= of Leipzig in the domain of New Testament exegesis and dogmatics works from the standpoint of Hofmann.
It adopted in dogmatics a more positive and in criticism a more conservative manner.
The orthodox school applied itself most diligently to dogmatics in a strictly scholastic form.
Calixt himself is known as a dogmatist only by his lectures; but to him we owe the generally adopted distinction between morals and dogmatics as set forth in his “Epitome theol.
Among theologians of this tendency in German universities we mention next =Denzinger= of Würzburg, who seeks in his works “to lead dogmatics back from the aberrations of modern philosophic speculations into the paths of the old schools.
His Summa sententiarum is an exposition of dogmatics on patristic lines, an ecclesiastical counterpart of Abælard’s Sic et Non.
In the department of dogmatics the old traditional method was still followed by commenting on the Lombard.
Its object is not Dogmatics as such, not the development of Fides quæ creditur, but life in fellowship with God, the development of Fides qua creditur.
Dogmatics (including Ethics) and the Canon Law constituted the peculiar field of the Dialectic Theology of the Schoolmen.
But his strength did not lie in dogmatics but in church government.
A pupil of Origen, he was distinguished for great learning, favoured the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, a spiritualistic dogmaticsand strict asceticism.
The supporters of the Alexandrian dogmatics left the Council full of resentment at the defeat which they had sustained.
But Cyril appeared with a great retinue of bishops and a faithful guard of servants of the church and seamen, who should in case of need prove the correctness of the Alexandrian dogmatics with their fists.
Accordingly, the main problem of primitive dogmatics was the delay of the Parousia.
In January 1839 the noble-minded Hitzig succeeded in getting him appointed to the vacant chair of dogmatics in Zurich.
In it again dogmatics only form the background for the strict regulation of life.
Revelation had become history, the history of salvation; and dogmatics had in a certain fashion become a way of looking at history, the knowledge of God's ways of salvation that lead historically to an appointed goal.
But no one dared to make the Prophet preach an orthodox system of dogmatics resulting from the controversies of several centuries, all the terms of which were foreign to the Arabic speech of Mohammed's time.
They set them forth, not to throw out the ten Tropes, but in order to put to shame the audacity of the Dogmatics in a variety of ways, by these Tropes as well as by those.
It is not impossible, Aenesidemus said also, that some Dogmatics 185 should fail in their theories of causality from other combinations of reasons deducible from the Tropes given above.
Because in each of the places where the Dogmatics think that the ruling faculty is, we see present certain humors, which are the cause of mixtures.
The second Trope states that although abundant resources exist by which to investigate the cause of a thing in question, some Dogmatics investigate it in one way only.
The third Trope 182 states that the Dogmatics assign causes which do not show any order for things which have taken place in an orderly manner.
Two of these are taken from the old list, the first and the third, and Sextus says that the five Tropes are intended to supplement the ten Tropes, and to show the audacity of the Dogmatics in a variety of ways.
Therefore it is perhaps possible to put the temerity of the Dogmatics to shame in aetiology by these Tropes.
And it finds its corroboration and justification and freedom not by way of dogmatics but of criticism.
In apologetics and dogmatics the interest in this matter is often concentrated more or less exclusively upon the question of "immortality.
Dogmatics (with apologetics) and morals have the task to explain and defend the doctrine of faith and morals, as drawn from the Scriptures and from tradition, to deduce new truths from them and to unite them all in a system.
A theory of religion, dogmaticscan have no other starting point than religious phenomena themselves.
The Science of Dogmas and Philosophy If less burning, the problem of the relations of dogmatics to philosophy is perhaps more difficult to solve than the problem just discussed.
Instead of dogmatics subordinating itself to metaphysics, metaphysics ought to include dogmatics as well as the results of all the other sciences.
In the first case it is dogmatics which absorbs philosophy; in the second it is philosophy which absorbs dogmatics.
The labour of dogmatics thus sprang up spontaneously in the bosom of the Church itself, and it has continued its work, not from without, but from within, through an office which is an essential ministry, an organ of the Church.
In appealing to the Word of God against traditional doctrines, they at least called in question the Dogmatics of the Councils.
Rational truths not born of religious feeling would be in dogmatics so many dead weights and heterogeneous elements, which would lead to the greatest incoherence.
Now, the Evangelical Reformation of the sixteenth century was the rupture of the tradition of the Church, of which the Dogmatics of the great Councils was the framework and the centre.
Dogmatics itself will never be for the religious soul anything but a higher symbolism--that is to say, a form which, without the inward presence of active and living faith, would be worthless.
It is exactly the same with the relations of dogmatics to philosophy.
The =Gnosimachians= were related to them in the depreciation of dogma, but went beyond them by wholly withdrawing themselves from the domain of dogmatics and occupying themselves exclusively with morals.
Individuæ Trinitatis may be regarded as his dogmatic masterpiece; a compendium ofdogmatics based upon Augustine’s writings.
But the miscalculation or the original weakness of Christian dogmatics lies--where it is never sought--precisely in that which is withdrawn from all investigation as established and certain.
Take this away and the whole of dogmatics is rational; for this dogma destroys theology as it does all other sciences.
III We may define more particularly the relation of Ethics to Dogmaticsby enumerating briefly the doctrinal postulates or assumptions with which Ethics starts.
Dogmatics regards the Christian life from the standpoint of divine dependence: Ethics regards it from the {26} standpoint of human determination.
Within the sphere of theology proper the two main constituents of Christian teaching are Dogmaticsand Ethics, or Doctrines and Morals.
Nor is the common statement, that Dogmatics shows what we should believe and Ethics what we ought to do, an adequate one.
It is true that Ethics stands nearer to everyday life and deals with matters of practical conduct, while Dogmatics is concerned with beliefs and treats of their origin and elucidation.
The distinction is sometimes expressed by saying thatDogmatics is a theoretic science, whereas Ethics is practical.
The ultimate connection between Dogmatics and Ethics cannot be ignored without loss to both.
It is difficult to define their limits, and to say whereDogmatics ends and Ethics begins.
On the other hand, Dogmatics supplies to Ethics its formative principles and normative standards, and preserves the moral life from degenerating into the vagaries of fanaticism or the apathy of fatalism.
Dogmatics deals with faith in relation to God, as the receptive organ of grace: Ethics views faith rather in relation to man, as a human activity or organ of conduct.
On the one hand, Ethics saves Dogmatics from evaporating into unsubstantial speculation, and by affording the test of workableness, keeps it upon the solid foundation of fact.
We naturally omit all those objects and parts of Christian dogmatics which have no points of contact, or are very indirectly connected with the Darwinian ideas, or which--as, e.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dogmatics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apologetics; divinity; dogmatics; eschatology; rationalism; religion; systematics
