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Christian Doctrine - A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
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Christian Doctrine - A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Series: Guides for the Perplexed
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Discovery Miles: 27 370
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Geoff Thompson addresses multiple questions concerning Christian
doctrine in an engaging narrative, beginning with an in-depth
discussion of the origins of doctrine in the various catechetical,
polemical and apologetic pressures that the church encountered as
it sought to articulate and teach its confession of faith in Jesus
Christ. In providing an overview of some of the classic and
historically influential doctrinal projects, Thompson employs ten
case studies that illustrate the overlapping influences of
tradition and contexts-both ecclesial and cultural-on doctrinal
discourse. Thompson takes the reader from those historical and
paradigmatic case studies into some of the great contemporary
debates about doctrine, including those which have been shaped by
the critique of doctrine associated with the European Enlightenment
as well as the challenges and contributions of theologians of the
majority world. He pays particular attention to the influence that
these diverse cultural, ecclesial, and academic contexts have had
upon the shape and content of particular doctrines. This leads into
an engagement with George Lindbeck's seminal The Nature of
Doctrine, as well as the more recent proposals of Kevin Vanhoozer
and Christine Helmer. This guide concludes by developing the idea
of a Christian social imaginary as the framework for holding
together doctrine, practice, truth, diversity, and context.
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