positive theology

Judaism did not, on the other hand, have a developed positive theology.

But for this reason even positive theology cannot be on a par with merely historical science.

They placed positive theology on a new basis without disregarding the speculative element.

The appeal of a positive theology.

The term positive theology is sometimes used to distinguish this new, more practical, theology from the earlier scholastic theology.

In western Christianity it was a counter-current to the prevailing Cataphatic theology or "positive theology".

They preferred the more positive theology of Western Europe, which defined God as Being rather than as Nothing.

The development of positive theology went hand in hand with the progress of research into the Patristic Era and into the history of dogma.

The pioneer work in positive theology fell to the Jesuit Giovanni Perrone (d. 1876) in Rome.

Denzinger was one of the pioneers of positive theology and historical dogmatic (Dogmengeschichte) in Catholic Germany.

If we are dealing with some form of negative theology, then the tried and trusted methods of the positive theology will serve as ever they did.' '

'The liberal theology finds Christ's centre of gravity in what he has in common with us; a positive theology in that wherein he differs.'

Though the progress of his psychological thought compelled him to abandon the positive theology of the Moravians, he retained an appreciation of its spiritual or symbolic significance.

The Church has AIDS: Towards a positive theology for an HIV+ Church.

A characteristic of this period was the transition the Leuven faculty made from a scholastic theology to a more positive theology based on Scripture and the Church Fathers.

Natural theology - the discussion of those aspects of theology that can be investigated without the help of revelation scriptures or tradition (sometimes contrasted with "positive theology")

He entered the Society of Jesus, 25 October 1621, taught humanities and rhetoric for seven years, then positive theology and Scripture at Bourges, and later at Paris.

For, together with the sources of positive theology God has given to His Church a living Teaching Authority to elucidate and explain what is contained in the deposit of faith only obscurely and implicitly.

For all of our emphasis on health, holism and positive theology, and for all of our attempts to exorcize everything that suggests limits, how equipped are we really to deal with life's inevitable frustrations?

To lessen the danger of inculcating his philosophical tenets in his lectures, he was relieved of the professorship of positive theology and given that of Biblical archaeology and exegesis in 1807.

He was sent to the Orient by his superiors, that he might eventually render service to the Roman Church, through his knowledge of the ecclesiastical documents and the positive theology of the Greeks.

These distinctions are not much observed, nor do they seem very necessary; they are nothing else than aspects of patristic study as it forms part of fundamental theology, of positive theology, and of literary history.

I am all the more sympathetic with them when I read in Neville Braybrooke's account of Christianity in England the comment on Mr. Billy Graham: "In his way he stood for 'positive theology'."

His works were Untersuchungen über die innere Wahrheit des Christenthums (Münster, 1805), and Einleitung in die christkatholische Theologie, of which the first part, a philosophical introduction, was published in 1810, the second part, on positive theology, in 1829.

Beginning in 1622, he taught positive theology for twenty-two years, and during this time he left France on only two occasions: first in 1629, to teach ecclesiastical history at Madrid at the invitation of Philip IV; second in 1639 to become a cardinal at Rome where Pope Urban VIII wanted him.