Hermeneutic Cyle featuring
CRC’s dynamic dogmatism (the continual reformation process)
factor
of automatic “gravitational force”
towards religion
Pre-
Equipped
with Bible, apostolic teachings and universal christian creeds a given
church observes reality because it is working with real people and
formulates its own dogma-statements a, b and c
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time
Time
Distribution
of dogmas a, b and c through christian educaton and mission
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tor
Fu-
The
cycle comes to a close for the christian ”synagogue”, it retracts itself
from reality and becomes a cultural museum or political party.
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Unpleasant
secondary effect: Religious apostasy of a church or part of a church not
accepting the reformation
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This
cycle has to go on and on and on …
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Equipped
with Bible, apostolic teaching, universal christian creeds as well as
its recently corrected dogmatical
position of departure, the church, still working with real people in the
real world, reflects on reality and formulates its old dogmas ”a” and ”b”
in a new way and further formulates dogma-statements d, e and f.
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The
dogma-statements ”a” and ”b” are confirmed and reasserted, while ”c” is
being rejected by church-reformers
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Process
of analytical reflection (differentiating, sorting out things)
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The
Bible is being ”scan-read” (so to speak) and possible false understandings
due to exegetical flaws of the past are being traced down by ”independent”
and more or less ”neutral” exegetes
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Process
of critical, god-seeking reflection
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ture
