Teologia narracyjna a teologia dogmatyczna

Abstract

The article undertakes the issue of the narrative method as a model of theological thinking, and at the same time as a bridge between the Bible and dogmatic theology. The author justifies the view that theology that uses narration enhances the status of the historical character of the biblical revelation and of salutary events. Theology construed in this way approaches the history of salvation in a holistic way and does not treat it as an assumption, but as the very structure of reflection based on a historical event and the truth revealed in history. History understood as a subjective approach to the history of salvation, or history in the subjective and personal understanding, is their correlate. In this way this reference plays the hermeneutic role with respect to statements about the signs of supernatural revelation. The meaning of words and events in the history of salvation is supplemented by the human person. Thereby the hermeneutic circle, in which historical understanding is the principal structure of narrative theology owing to the personal subject, is completed.