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Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology : From the Fathers to Feminism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (525 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191520617
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Canon and Criterion in Christian TheologyDDC classification:
  • 230/.01
LOC classification:
  • BS465.A25 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Contents -- 1. Orientation: Authority, Canon, and Criterion -- 2. The Emergence of the Canonical Heritage of the Church -- 3. Canonical Division between East and West -- 4. Canon and Scientia -- 5. Theological Foundationalism -- 6. The Epistemic Fortunes of Sola Scriptura -- 7. Initiation into the Rule of Truth -- 8. Canonical Synthesis: The Anglican Via Media -- 9. The Rule of Reason -- 10. Theology within the Limits of Experience Alone -- 11. The Canons of Common Sense -- 12. The Rough Intellectualist Road of a Sound Epistemology -- 13. More Light Amid the Encircling Gloom -- 14. Ending the Great Misery of Protestantism -- 15. Digging Still Deeper for Firm Ground -- 16. Feminism and the Transgressing of Canonical Boundaries -- 17. The Canonical Heritage and the Epistemology of Theology -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: This book provides an original and important narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Abraham shows that the move to treat canon as a criterion of truth has had unsuspecting consequences for the history of theology and philosophy, from the Fathers to modern feminist theology.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Contents -- 1. Orientation: Authority, Canon, and Criterion -- 2. The Emergence of the Canonical Heritage of the Church -- 3. Canonical Division between East and West -- 4. Canon and Scientia -- 5. Theological Foundationalism -- 6. The Epistemic Fortunes of Sola Scriptura -- 7. Initiation into the Rule of Truth -- 8. Canonical Synthesis: The Anglican Via Media -- 9. The Rule of Reason -- 10. Theology within the Limits of Experience Alone -- 11. The Canons of Common Sense -- 12. The Rough Intellectualist Road of a Sound Epistemology -- 13. More Light Amid the Encircling Gloom -- 14. Ending the Great Misery of Protestantism -- 15. Digging Still Deeper for Firm Ground -- 16. Feminism and the Transgressing of Canonical Boundaries -- 17. The Canonical Heritage and the Epistemology of Theology -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

This book provides an original and important narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Abraham shows that the move to treat canon as a criterion of truth has had unsuspecting consequences for the history of theology and philosophy, from the Fathers to modern feminist theology.

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