In Defense of Doctrinne
Subtitle: Evangelicalism, Theology, and Scripture
Publisher: 1517 Media
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781451499711
Subjects: Bible, hermeneutics; Bible, evidences, authority, etc.; Evangelicalism
Description: This study is an apologetic for the ongoing, constructive theological task in Protestant and Evangelical traditions. It suggests that doctrinal development can be explained as a hermeneutical phenomenon and that insights from hermeneutical philosophy and the philosophy of language can aid theologians in constructing explanatory theses for particular theological problems associated with the facts of doctrinal development, namely, questions related to textual authority, reality depiction, and theological identity. Joining the recent call to theological interpretation of Scripture, Putman provides a constructive model that forwards a descriptive and normative pattern for reading Scripture and theological tradition together.