A teologia como caminho: considerações sobre o método teológico

The present article seeks to revisit the question of theological methods. It begins with a general consideration, of a phenomenological and hermeneutical order, concerning the relationship between method and knowledge of the truth, in order to explore subsequently the typical elements of theological method, concentrating on the concepts/dimension of auditus fidei, actio fidei, intellectus fidei and ontologia fidei. To terminate, there is a discussion of the characteristics of theological discourse, as analogical discourse, which raises the question of the pertinence and limits of the very method, as an endless path, which leads us to a ‘place’ different from itself. Taken as a whole, there is an exploration above all of the relationship between tradition, pragmatics, criticism and metaphysics.