Assignment task: Theology the Lutheran way
1. Elaborate broadly on some of the major paradigm shifts in the field of theology under the influence of philosophy in the past two centuries. In your answer, demonstrate how such a complex dialectic relationship dictated and changed how one approached scripture and the purpose of first-order and second-order theology.
2. The goal of theology should always be pro ecclesia, for the church, and so for the service of the gospel in witnessing, confronting, and forming people towards a faith relationship with God and in loving service to the world. As a pastoral theologian living in a post-Christian and post-modern milieu, what faith commitments, theological precautions, framework, or tools would you employ for this task? Substantiate your position with suitable examples.