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Quotes about Dogmatics

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.
- Herman Bavinck
seems to me that Christian dogmatics must be an explication of Christ's activity, the more so since Christ established no teaching but was active. He didn't teach that there was a redemption for man, he redeemed men. A Muhammadan dogmatics (sit venia verbo)21 would be an explication of Muhammad's teaching, but a Christian dogmatics is an explication of Christ's activity.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To define the limits of the Kenosis, and to adjust it to the immutability of the Godhead and the intertrinitarian process, lies beyond the sphere of exegesis and belongs to speculative dogmatics.
- Philip Schaff
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics
- Karl Barth
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
- Karl Barth