Pedagogía de la enseñanza teológica. La condescendencia de Dios como clave hermenéutica fundamental para la enseñanza teológica

Abstract

The processes of theological teaching and learning demand pedagogical abilities of teachers and students which are not only consistent with findings in education sciences, but also with the object of study: the revelation of God in Christ and the testimonies of its interpretation and transmission through history. Based on this, the author proposes the concept of Divine Condescension as a fundamental theological key to promote pedagogical processes that are both educationally and theologically consistent. The concept of condescension, which is employed masterfully in the Second Vatican Council, is principally analyzed according to its biblical and patristic background, thus uncovering its capacity to discover how the possibility of our language about him is founded in the Logos of God; how teaching theology through the dynamics of condescension becomes an expression of the love of God, shows us his ever transcendent proximity, and guides us to an ever present intelligence of «what we have seen and heard»; and finally how teaching theology can only be validated as questioning liberty.