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Theology and the End of Doctrine
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Source Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Theology and Doctrine
- Chapter 2: From Ritschl to Brunner: Neither Mysticism nor Metaphysics, but the Problem with Schleiermacher
- Chapter 3: From Trinitarian Representation to the Epistemic-Advantage Model: Word, Doctrine, Theology
- Chapter 4: Language and Reality: A Theological Epistemology with Some Help from Schleiermacher
- Chapter 5: Acknowledging Social Construction and Moving beyond Deconstruction: Doctrine for Theology and Religious Studies
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects