{"id":27842,"date":"2013-07-15T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T14:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/distinguishing-religion-and-th\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T14:29:59","slug":"distinguishing-religion-and-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/distinguishing-religion-and-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguishing religion and theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Subconsciously we are still studying the history of doctrine as a history of philosophy, and therefore we are bound to miss the very thing. For both theology and doctrine <i>are not<\/i>&nbsp;philosophy. It is not a speculation on religious topics or problems, even as it does not exclude the theological use of reasons. But it begins, earnestly and emphatically, with revelation &#8212; not with an innate &#8220;revelation&#8221; of the truth in the human mind, but with a concrete Revelation in history, with a true encounter. It is a personal datum &#8212; not because it is a private business of human personalities, but because it is a self-disclosure and challenge of a Divine Person of the Personal God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); min-height: 15px; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Father Georges Florovsky<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><i>Religion and Theological Tensions<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subconsciously we are still studying the history of doctrine as a history of philosophy, and therefore we are bound to miss the very thing. For both theology and doctrine are not&nbsp;philosophy. It is not a speculation on religious topics or problems, even as it does not exclude the theological use of reasons. But it begins, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/distinguishing-religion-and-th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distinguishing religion and theology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3090,3246,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}