03 — The Dogmatic Theology

Stăniloae’s systematic masterwork — the three-volume Teologia Dogmatică Ortodoxă (Bucharest, 1978), translated into English as The Experience of God — and the neo-patristic method that produced it: a dogmatics drawn from Scripture, the Fathers, the liturgy, and the lived experience of the praying Church.

Tradition: Romanian Orthodox

This section treats Stăniloae’s contribution to systematic theology. The Experience of God describes the Dogmatics itself — its structure, its governing idea that dogma is the description of a lived experience of God, and its English translation; Method and Sources sets out the neo-patristic method behind it, and the four sources on which Stăniloae draws.

Contents

File	Description
The Experience of God	The Teologia Dogmatică Ortodoxă (1978) and its English translation; dogma as experience
Method and Sources	His neo-patristic method; Scripture, the Fathers, the liturgy, and experience

See Also

• The Added Commentary — the Filocalia notes from which the Dogmatics grew
• Among the Neo-patristic Theologians — the movement to which his method belongs
• Key Themes — the central doctrines developed in the Dogmatics