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Canon And Criterion In Christian Theology

From the Fathers to Feminism

by J Abraham William

  • Hardback
  • 516 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 3.4 cm

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For students and scholars of Christian theology

Challenges misconceptions about scripture and tradition

You will gain deeper insights into faith's foundations

This book explores the significance of canon in Christian theology from historical and feminist perspectives.

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.
Canon And Criterion In Christian Theology and Divine Agency And Divine Action, Volume Iii
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  • Title

    Canon And Criterion In Christian Theology

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 1998

  • Weight

    818g

  • Page Count

    516

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 3.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198269397

  • ISBN-10

    0198269390

  • Eden Code

    1006663

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