THE PERTINENCE OF PARADOX IN THEOLOGY-Its Uses and Possibilities

神學中弔詭張力的適切運用與可能性

湯紹源(LANCELOT S. TONG)

《建道學刊》 4期 (1995/07) Pp. 45-71

摘要

Paradox, by itself is often an unwelcome term in theological construction. This paper attempts to point out the legitimacy of paradox. Hopefully, paradoxes in theology can be utilized and recognized, and will become one of the tools to construct today's theology. Since the Age of the Enlightenment and through the influence of the philosophy of Kant, the fact-value split has become a constraint in theological construction. The use of paradox provides space for a theology which makes possible the coherence of fact and value. With this kind of space, theology has a built-in corrective.

並列摘要

弔詭，是一個不太容易被接納的名詞，本文試圖指出弔詭的合法性，並且希望將神學中弔詭的使用清楚陳明，使之成為建造神學的其中一個工具。自啟蒙運動、康德哲學以降；事實與價值的割裂成為做神學的一個桎梏，而使用弔詭則賦予神學一個空間使事實與價值產生關連，並且因著這個空間使神學擁有自我校正的功能。