I.

PART ONE: FAITH AND REASON RELATIONSHIP IN THE

SHIFTING CONTEXTS OF DOING THEOLOGY
Important Moments in the Encounter of Faith and Reason: First Christians and Early Church
Fathers
1. SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGICAL METHOD
1.1 The Use of Philosophy in Theologizing
 Distinguishing Theology from Philosophy
 The Revealed and the Revealable Truths
 The Relation of Faith and Reason in Theologizing
1.2 Thomas Aquinas’s Theological Method and Epistemology
1.3 Transition to the Modern Way: Deconstructing the Aristotelian Notion of Science

2. Modern Theological Method

2.1 The Challenges of Modernity
2.1 What is “Modern” about the Enlightenment period?
2.3 Immanuel Kant’s Epistemology and Transcendental Method
2.4 Modernity and the Rupture of Tradition
2.5 The Modern Correlation Method

3. Jean-Francois Lyotard: Postmodern Method

3.1 Archaeology of the Postmodern
3.2 The Challenge of the Postmodern Context
3.3 Jean-François Lyotard
 Kant’s Influence
 Language Pragmatics and Justice
 The Collapse of Metanarratives
 Philosophy in the Postmodern Condition
 New Universality
4. Church’s Teaching on Faith and Reason Relationship

II. PART TWO: BERNARD LONERGAN’S TRANSCENDENTAL

METHOD
1. The Influence of Kant and Thomas Aquinas
2. Lonergan’s Epistemology: Successive Operations and Levels of Consciousness
3. Theology as Science
4. On Transcendental Method
5. Functional Specialties

III. PART THREE: THE CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGIZING OF THE

SEE-JUDGE-ACT METHOD OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY
1. Contextual Theology
2. The See-Judge-Act-Celebrate Theological Method
3. The Use of Mediations in Theologizing
4. The Methodology of Liberation Theology
Faith and reason
- There was a quarrel( risky kung icombine ag faith and reason)
- Aquinas took the risk..
- First topic- the use of philo in theologizing
- In a sense, philo is used in order to reveal that fullness of theology
- Without destroying there essenses
- Aquinas used Aristotle’s method/philo since Aristotle’s philosophy is the best
of all and based on the certainty of things
- In deconstructing the Aristotelian concept of knowing, we use kant –
conditional probability.