Însemnătatea teologiei dogmatice în contemporaneitate. In memoriam Părintele Profesor Ioan Ică sr
The significance of dogmatic theology in contemporaneity. In memory of Father Professor Ioan Ică sr

Summary/Abstract: The study is an apology of dogmatic theology, in the face of the multiple attacks that come today not only from a secular ideological area, but even from the position of other theological disciplines, which want to be free from the rigors of dogmatics. The significance of dogma, its central character both in the academic theological system and in the life of the Church, results from the multitude and importance of its functions: the hermeneutic function of dogma in relation to the Holy Scripture, absolutely necessary to remain within Orthodoxy; the function of founding, determining and guiding the spiritual life; the contemplative and cultural function of dogma. The study shows the baselessness of the accusations brought against dogmatic theology, the superficiality and ignorance that made them appear. A truly subtle trap is highlighted: the anti-intellectual pathos and the dictatorship of emotions that the present era destructively propagates are not real allies of Orthodoxy which, unfortunately, largely identifies danger in the rigidity of scholasticism (and sometimes even in reason itself), not in the postmodern dissolution that truly threatens the dogmatic articulation of faith. But first of all, the patristic position (significantly undisputed in the eastern space until the end of the twentieth century) reaffirms that dogmas are necessary for salvation.

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