The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-linguistic Approach to Christian TheologyObserving a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church--the theater of the gospel--by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others who locate the criteria of Christian identity in Spirit-led church practices, Vanhoozer relocates the norm for Christian doctrine in the canonical practices, which, he argues, both provoke and preserve the integrity of the church's witness as prophetic and apostolic. |
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... faith's search for biblical under- standing , responds to each of these cultural - spiritual conditions . Employing the gospel as its primary , though not exclusive , resource for dealing with life's most persistent questions ...
... faith seeking understanding gets when its search is successful . To be precise : Christian doctrine is the reward that faith finds at the end of its search for the meaning of the apostolic testimony to what God was doing in the event of ...
... faith's search for understanding . Those who draw their theological first principles from ecclesiology have made what we may call the " cultural - linguistic turn . " This turn to the church's own habits of speaking and acting is a ...
... faith and life . The choice of such norms seems somewhat arbitrary . These criticisms notwithstand- ing , it does not follow that there is no role for experience in my understanding of the nature of doc- trine . There is ; everything ...
... faith and to the project of faith seeking understanding . The present work seeks to move theology away from the- oretical knowledge in order to reorient it toward wisdom . It is this picture of the- ology as wisdom that , more than ...
Contents
The Gospel As Theodrama The Divine Voice and Actor | 37 |
Entrances Exoduses and the Economy of the Gospel | 38 |
Divine Speech and Action | 44 |
Theology in the Theodrama The Human Voice and Actor | 57 |
Human Speech and Actions | 58 |
The Missions of Theology and the Trinitarian Missions | 60 |
The Nature of Doctrine A Dramatic Proposal | 77 |
What London and Broadway Have to Say to Jerusalem | 79 |
Theology as Dramaturgy | 243 |
Introducing the Dramaturge | 244 |
The theologian as Dramaturge | 246 |
Faithfulness as Dramatic Fittingness | 256 |
The CanonicalLinguistic Approach Part One Scientia | 265 |
A Postpropositionalist Theology | 266 |
A Postconservative Theology | 278 |
A Postfoundationalist Theory | 291 |
Of Propositions Poems and Practices | 83 |
Doctrine as Theodramatic Direction | 100 |
III | 113 |
Word and Church The Canon as Covenant Document | 115 |
According to the Scriptures | 116 |
Why Turn to Canon? Problems and Possibilities | 120 |
How Scripture Constitutes the Church Canon as Criterion Why Scripture Rules | 133 |
Why Scripture Rules | 141 |
Scripture and Tradition Two or More Kinds of Performance Interpretation | 151 |
Ecclesiology as First Thelogy? | 154 |
The Interpretative Community Authors and Directs | 165 |
Divine Canonical Discourse | 176 |
The Interpretative Community Responds and Enacts | 179 |
Jesus Spirit Church Scripture and Tradition in Theodramatic Perspective | 187 |
The Church as Performance of the Spirit? | 189 |
Canon and the Prophetic Authority of Jesus Christ | 193 |
The Church as History of Canonical Effects | 199 |
The Rule of Faith as Canonical | 203 |
The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Canon | 211 |
Genres as Types of Social Action | 212 |
Canonical Practices and Forms of Convenantal Life | 216 |
Figuring and Praying the Scriptures | 220 |
The Canon as Sapiential Criterion | 226 |
IV | 231 |
V | 239 |
The CanonicalLinguistic Approach Part Two Sapientia | 307 |
A Prosaic Theology | 309 |
A Phronetic Theology | 324 |
A Prophetic Thelogy | 354 |
VI | 361 |
Doctrine Role Vocation The Actors Prepare | 363 |
Casting Calls RolePlaying Being Oneself | 364 |
From Character To Spiritual Formation | 369 |
Atonement and Union with Christ | 380 |
Being Real | 394 |
Doctrine and the Church The Company of the Gospel | 399 |
The Empty Space | 401 |
Playing Corpus Christi | 407 |
Interactive Theater as Communio | 413 |
A Theater of Martyrdom | 426 |
Acting in Parables | 441 |
Creeds Confessions and the PastorDirector Doctrine and Theology in the Theater of Congregational Action | 445 |
Pastoral Theology | 447 |
Creedal Theology | 449 |
Confessional Theology | 451 |
Congregational Theology | 453 |
Selected Bibliography | 459 |
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