This book is about the crisis brought about by doctrine's
estrangement from reality--that is from actual lives, experiences,
histories, and from God. By invoking "the end of doctrine,"
Christine Helmer opens a new discussion of doctrinal production
that is engaged with the challenges and possibilities of modernity.
The end of doctrine refers on the one hand to unquestioning
doctrinal reception, which Helmer critiques, and on the other,
represents an invitation to a new way of understanding the aim of
doctrine in deeper connection to the reality that it seeks.
The book's first section offers an analysis of the current
situation in theology by reconstructing a trajectory of Protestant
theology from the turn of the twentieth century to today. This
history focuses primarily on the status of the word in theology and
explains how changes in theology in the context of the political
and social crisis in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s led to a
distancing of the word from reality. Helmer then turns to the
constructive section of the book to propose a repositioning of
theology to the world and to God. Helmer's powerful work will
inspire revitalized interest in both doctrine and theological
inquiry itself.
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