Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to FeminismClarendon Press, 1998 M05 21 - 516 páginas The book provides an original and important narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Standard accounts of canon reduce canon to scripture and treat scripture as a criterion of truth. Scripture is then related in positive or negative ways to tradition, reason, and experience. Such projects involve a misreading of the meaning and content of canon —- they locate the canonical heritage of the church within epistemology —- and Abraham charts the fatal consquences of this move, from the Fathers to modern feminist theology. In the process he shows that the central epistemological concerns of the Enlightenment have Christian origins and echoes. He also shows that the crucial developments of theology from the Reformation onwards involve extraordinary efforts to fix the foundations of faith. This trajectory is now exhausted theologically and spiritually. Hence, the door is opened for a recovery of the full canonical heritage of the early church and for fresh work on the epistemology of theology. |
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3 Canonical Division between East and West | 57 |
4 Canon and Scientia | 84 |
5 Theological Foundationalism | 111 |
6 The Epistemic Fortunes of Sola Scriptura | 139 |
7 Initiation into the Rule of Truth | 162 |
The Anglican Via Media | 188 |
11 The Canons of Common Sense | 276 |
12 The Rough Intellectualist Road of a Sound Epistemology | 306 |
13 More Light Amid the Encircling Gloom | 334 |
14 Ending the Great Misery of Protestantism | 361 |
15 Digging Still Deeper for Firm Ground | 391 |
16 Feminism and the Transgressing of Canonical Boundaries | 431 |
17 The Canonical Heritage and the Epistemology of Theology | 466 |
Bibliography | 481 |
9 The Rule of Reason | 215 |
10 Theology within the Limits of Experience Alone | 240 |
Index | 501 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism William James Abraham Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism William James Abraham Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism William James Abraham Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
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