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epistemicstatus–aswellasallthetheoriesthatservetoexplainand
developitinmoredetail.Crucially,theassumptionhereisthatboth
revelationandtheologicaltheoriesareexpressedinhumanlanguage
and,assuch,maybesubjecttoformalscrutiny.Asinthecaseofany
setofsentences,onecaninvestigatelogicallyanumberoftheological
issues,including–butnotbeinglimitedto–syntactic(thestructureof
theologicalsentencesandtheologicaltheories),semantic(truth,
evidenceintheology),pragmatic(analysisofthepropositionalattitudes
intheology),conceptual(definitionsofandinterrelationsbetween
theologicalconcepts)andmethodological(typesofargumentsand
criteriaofjustificationintheology)ones.Thus,weunderstandlogic
broadlytoincludenotonlysemantics,syntaxandpragmatics,butalso
thestudyofthetheologicalconceptualscheme,aswellasits
methodologicalaspects.Importantly,inallthesedimensionsonecan
analyzenotonlytheologicaldiscourseperse,butalsoitsrelationswith
otherdiscourses,suchasscientific,philosophical,etc.Oursecond
assumptionconcernslogic:webelievethatafruitfulformalstudyof
theologicaldiscoursecannotbelimitedtotheapplicationofclassical
logic.Rather,anylogicaltoolmayproveuseful,andexamplesinclude
many-valuedlogics,modallogics,non-monotoniclogics,andother
formalmechanismssuchasbeliefrevisionorthetheoryofcircular
definitions.
Giventhisbroadscopeofthetheologicalproblemsaccessiblewith
logicaltools,andthenumberoflogicaltechniquesonecanutilize
whileanalyzingtheologicaldiscourse,weprefertospeakoflogicin
theologyratherthanlogicoftheology.Thelatterexpressionseemsto
suggestthatthereisoneandonlylogicalsystemsuitablefor
theologicalreflectionorthatthelogicalaspectoftheologicalthinking
issomehowexternaltothecontentoftheology.Inoureyes,boththese
statementsarefalse.Ontheonehand,thereisnoreasontobelievethat
thedifferenttheologicalproblemscanbehandledwithoneformal
recipe;ontheother,manytheologicalquestionsaresointertwinedwith
theunderlyinglogicalproblemsthattheycannotbeproperly
