Fundamental Presumptions of the Protestant Notion of the Task of the Theologian and Theology in Relation to the Community of Believers

Rad izlaže temeljne postavke protestantskog razumijevanja zadaće teologije u odnosu prema zajednici vjernika. Polazi od definicije Riječi Božje. Pritom razlikuje: Isusa Krista kao Riječi Božje u najvlastitijem smislu, Riječ Božju u pisanom obliku (Sveto pismo) kao svjedočanstva o Isusu Kristu i riječ Božja u navještaju zajednice vjernika. U sklopu ove tematike razmatra se uloga teologije u odnosu prema zajednici vjernika. Pritom je uloga teologije viđena dvojako. Prvo, uloga teologije je bolje protumačiti, razlučiti te argumentacijski popratiti govor Crkve. No, budući da je govor zajednice vjernika uvijek i ljudski govor te kao takav podložan propustima, zadaća je teologije također i upitati zajednicu vjernika u kojoj mjeri njezin govor doista jest riječ Isusa Krista upućena čovjeku današnjice. Radi se o tzv. pitanju korespondencije crkvenog govora Isusu Kristu kao Riječi Božjoj. Kriterij pak za ovu prosudbu jest Sveto pismo.This article presents the fundamental assumptions of the protestant understanding of the task of the theologian in regard to the community of believers. It starts from the definition of the Word of God. Then it differentiates between Jesus Christ as the Word of God in it very sense, the Word of God in the written form (The Holy Scriptures) as a testimony of Jesus Christ and the Word of God in the proclamation of the community. As part of this topic the article considers the role of the theologian with regard to the community of believers. The role of the theologian is seen to be two-fold. First, the theologian’s task is to better interpret, differentiate and argumentatively support the proclamation of the Church. However, seeing that the proclamation of the community of believers is always human speech and as such is prone to fault, the task of the theologian is always to question the community to what measure is its proclamation truly the word of Jesus Christ directed to the man of today. This refers to the so-called question about the correspondence of the Church’s proclamation to Jesus Christ as the Word of God. The criterion for this judgement then is the Holy Scripture