Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Author: Vanhoozer, Kevin J.
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ISBN-10: 0664223273 | ISBN-13: 9780664223274
Binding: Paperback
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Publisher Description: The overall aim is to explain how the church comes to share the mind of Christ, despite the difference of centuries, cultures, and conceptual schemes, thanks to the dramatic interplay of Word and Spirit. Vanhoozer describes the canonical-linguistic approach in terms of four marks. It is evangelical in its understanding of the dramatic action at the heart of the Bible's authoritative witness, orthodox in its thinking about the divine dramatis personae, catholic in its attention to various voices in Scripture and in the traditions of its interpretation, yet protestant in its use of Scripture as a critical principle for discriminating between forms of ecclesial performance. The net result is a non-reductive or expansive orthodoxy that attends to the dialogue inside the canon and about it for the sake of the integrity of our contemporary renderings of the drama of redemption.
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Why is doctrine seen as "dry dust" in so many churches today? The Drama of Doctrine proposes that in our cordoning off of theology to academia, we have lost the theodrama that God wants to live through his church. As a remedy, Vanhoozer sets forth his canonical-linguistic approach, calling the church to see itself as a company of Spirit-directed actors improvising a lived-out Gospel with Scripture as their script. The church is challenged to welcome doctrine, firmly grounded in sola scriptura, into its life and practices; to perform doctrine, not just think doctrine. Vanhoozer argues with the passion of one deeply concerned for the life and witness of Christ's church. " Mark Traphagen, Bookstore Staff, September 2005
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