The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal AgeThis groundbreaking work lays the foundation for a theology based on a cultural-linguistic approach to religion and a regulative or rule theory of doctrine. Although shaped intimately by theological concerns, this approach is consonant with the most advanced anthropological, sociological, and philosophical thought of our times. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
The Proposal | 15 |
A Pretheological Inquiry | 30 |
Many Religions and the One True Faith | 46 |
Salvation and Other Faiths | 52 |
Excursus on Religion and Truth | 63 |
Theories of Doctrine | 73 |
Christology Mariology | 91 |
Toward a Postliberal Theology | 112 |
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The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age George A. Lindbeck No preview available - 1984 |
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