Disputationes

It was regular practice in the medieval university for faculty and students to engage in the art of disputation. This blog presupposes the corporate nature of the theological enterprise, supposing that theology, particularly Lutheran theology, can once again clarify its truth claims and provide rational justification for its positions.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The Internal Clarity of Scriptture

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I I want to talk this evening about a very important notion in the Lutheran Reformation, the idea of the internal clarity of scripture ....
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Towards a Lutheran Theological Semantics III

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Imagine two theories T1 and T2 indiscernible with respect to their syntax. To give an interpretation to this syntax is to define an ordere...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Towards a Lutheran Theological Semantics II

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Being realist with regard to a class of theological statements does not mean one has to commit to metaphysical realism, to a claim that ther...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Towards a Lutheran Theological Semantics I

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While syntax deals with the form and structure of a language, semantics deals with its meaning and truth. When considering the general ques...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Logic and Semantics in Theology

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In the medieval university the study of logic and semantics was part of an education eventuating in the Master of Arts degree. Students st...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Towards Theological Sanity

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Ever since the time of Kant, theologians having been playing a certain kind of game. It has been, by all accounts, a pretty successful gam...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

A Review of Searle's Freedom and Neurobiology

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In this very brief book John Searle continues his project of trying to naturalize the psychological and social without doing away with eithe...
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Dennis Bielfeldt
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President of the Institute of Lutheran Theology and Director of the Christ School of Theology PhD Program
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