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

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Oxford University Press, 2002 - 508 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, andexperience. 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 thecentral 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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Authority Canon and Criterion I
1
The Emergence of the Canonical Heritage of the Church
27
Canonical Division between East and West
57
Canon and Scientia
84
Theological Foundationalism
111
The Epistemic Fortunes of Sola Scriptura
139
Initiation into the Rule of Truth
162
The Anglican Via Media
188
The Canons of Common Sense
276
The Rough Intellectualist Road of a Sound Epistemology
306
More Light Amid the Encircling Gloom
334
Ending the Great Misery of Protestantism
361
Digging Still Deeper for Firm Ground
391
Feminism and the Transgressing of Canonical Boundaries
431
The Canonical Heritage and the Epistemology of Theology
466
Bibliography
481

The Rule of Reason
215
Theology within the Limits of Experience Alone
240

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William J. Abraham teaches philosophy and theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, where he is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies

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