ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two main features of theological method that are grounding of theology in context and a grounding of theology in orthodoxy. Schleiermacher's theology develops and matures from his early thinking to the crystallization of his theology in The Christian Faith. Here, a concern for orthodoxy signals the importance of upholding the ontological priority and objective reality of God's self-revelation, as well as a firm confession that Jesus Christ is God incarnate. Keeping with Nicene and Chalcedonian orthodoxy, this asserts that God exists objectively as Trinity and that God has made Godself known in the economy of salvation through the person of Christ. Where Schleiermacher's method seems to be overly anthropocentric, reducing the objective and ontological reality of God consciousness of the self, Barth establishes the objective reality of God as triune as the very ground of his theological method. However, this is not a non-foundationalist, fideist rendering of theological knowledge.
