Analytic theology as systematic theology
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03/04/2017Author
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It is often said that analytic theology is not really systematic theology; it is something else entirely. However, specifying what this “something else” amounts to has proven a little more difficult. In this article I argue that analytic theology may be a species of systematic theology. I show that there is no agreed view on the nature of systematic theology amongst several leading practitioners of systematic theology by comparing the work of John Webster, Brian Gerrish, and Gordon Kaufman. I then set out the Shared Task of Systematic Theology (Shared Task), which is a conceptual threshold for systematic theology that reflects the thought of Webster, Gerrish, and Kaufman. With this in mind, I argue that analytic theology can meet this threshold, and count as a version of systematic theology.
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Crisp , O D 2017 , ' Analytic theology as systematic theology ' , Open Theology , vol. 3 , no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2017-0012
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Open Theology
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Peer reviewed
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2300-6579Type
Journal article
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© 2017 Oliver D. Crisp. Published by De Gruyter Open. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
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