Prolegomena

The inherent paradox of the use of finite forms to discuss an infinite truth, of the presentation of concepts relating to an incomprehensible Being and the unfathomable mystery of his relation to the world and its creatures, hovers in the background of all theological statement. Prolegomena merely make these issues explicit. What is theology? What is the relationship of theology to God’s own truth? Where does theology stand among the ways of human knowing? How can a knowledge or wisdom concerning divine things draw on the resources of human reason and human language? What are the necessary and irreducible foundations of theological statement?

 

Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 1: Prolegomena to Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 86.