{"id":4891,"date":"2023-06-01T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2023-06-23T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:52:14","slug":"kneeling-theology-ratzingers-theological-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/2023\/06\/01\/kneeling-theology-ratzingers-theological-epistemology\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneeling Theology: Ratzinger\u2019s Theological Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, June 7, 2023<\/h2>

Speaker: Filip Veber (Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana)<\/p>\n

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Before analysing Ratzinger\u2019s theological epistemology, we posed the question of what theology is, and proposed three dimensions. Firstly, theology is the word about God<\/em>, it is the word with which we proclaim the great works of God. Second dimension: theology is a dialogue<\/em> (dia-logos<\/em>, literally dia<\/em> – “through” and logos<\/em> \u2013 word, speech, reason). What is theology, if not a continuous dialogue between God and his people? St. Paul affirms that it is the Holy Spirit in our hearts (Rm 5:5; 8:15; 8:26) who leads into the dialogue with God. Third dimension: theology is Theo-logia<\/em>, the (W)word, Logos of God (Heb 1:1-2). The only begotten Son (Jn 1,18) is the primary exegete of the Father not only with His words, but even more with His works and His whole being, is the theology incarnate, where he whom no one has ever seen, has become visible to us.<\/p>\n

After that we outlined what is “kneeling theology”, as Ratzinger\u2019s theological epistemology can be called, because of its profound spiritual mark. This expression refers to Hans Urs von Balthasar, who spoke about the dialectic between kneeling and sitting theology and about theology and holiness as \u201csisters in spirit\u201d who inextricably belong together. Ratzinger is firm: \u00abThe man who learns to believe learns also to kneel. And faith no longer familiar with kneeling would be sick at its core\u00bb from which it follows the connection between prayer and theological research \u00abwhere theology has to radiate prayerful search\u00bb. In this we also outlined the ecclesial character of Ratzinger\u2019s theology, and its connection with the liturgy.<\/p>\n

In this last part we outlined some dimensions of the \u201cepistemological seriousness and rationality of faith\u201d which is so central for Ratzinger, together with his notion of \u201chermeneutics of faith\u201d. Then we looked at some passages from Ratzinger\u2019s trilogy Jesus of Nazareth, Introduction to Christianity<\/em> and Deus Caritas est<\/em> where the character of theological epistemology of Ratzinger as \u201ckneeling theology\u201d is the most evident.<\/p>\n

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Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, June 7, 2023 Speaker: Filip Veber (Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana) *** Before analysing Ratzinger\u2019s theological epistemology, we posed the question of what theology is, and proposed three dimensions. Firstly, theology is the word about God, it is the word with which we proclaim the… Read More »Kneeling Theology: Ratzinger\u2019s Theological Epistemology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ror-seminar-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}