The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-linguistic Approach to Christian TheologyObserving a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church--the theater of the gospel--by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others who locate the criteria of Christian identity in Spirit-led church practices, Vanhoozer relocates the norm for Christian doctrine in the canonical practices, which, he argues, both provoke and preserve the integrity of the church's witness as prophetic and apostolic. |
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... Human Voice and Actor 57 Theo - dramatic Theology : Human Speech and Action The Mission of Theology and the Trinitarian Missions 3 The Nature of Doctrine : A Dramatic Proposal To Know God Truly : What London and Broadway Have to Say to ...
... human flourishing : only doctrine shows us who we are , why we are here , and what we are to do . The stereotype of doctrine as dry and dusty cuts a flimsy caricature next to the real thing , which is brave and bracing . Doctrine deals ...
... human genome , but we are still trying to determine what we are . We need guidance as we seek to play our parts , prompt- ing as we grope for our next lines . To be sure , being cast — born — into a certain place and time ( and class ) ...
... human dignity and personhood ? The very way these questions have been framed betrays their author's location on the stage of human history . They are all about me , about us ; they are all anthropocentric . They have more of postmodern ...
... human words to their proper reference — Jesus Christ , the living Word of God . The Bible thus " becomes " what it already " is " : a witness to Jesus Christ and therefore a form of God's Word . Whereas the propositional view highlights ...
Contents
The Gospel As Theodrama The Divine Voice and Actor | 37 |
Entrances Exoduses and the Economy of the Gospel | 38 |
Divine Speech and Action | 44 |
Theology in the Theodrama The Human Voice and Actor | 57 |
Human Speech and Actions | 58 |
The Missions of Theology and the Trinitarian Missions | 60 |
The Nature of Doctrine A Dramatic Proposal | 77 |
What London and Broadway Have to Say to Jerusalem | 79 |
Theology as Dramaturgy | 243 |
Introducing the Dramaturge | 244 |
The theologian as Dramaturge | 246 |
Faithfulness as Dramatic Fittingness | 256 |
The CanonicalLinguistic Approach Part One Scientia | 265 |
A Postpropositionalist Theology | 266 |
A Postconservative Theology | 278 |
A Postfoundationalist Theory | 291 |
Of Propositions Poems and Practices | 83 |
Doctrine as Theodramatic Direction | 100 |
III | 113 |
Word and Church The Canon as Covenant Document | 115 |
According to the Scriptures | 116 |
Why Turn to Canon? Problems and Possibilities | 120 |
How Scripture Constitutes the Church Canon as Criterion Why Scripture Rules | 133 |
Why Scripture Rules | 141 |
Scripture and Tradition Two or More Kinds of Performance Interpretation | 151 |
Ecclesiology as First Thelogy? | 154 |
The Interpretative Community Authors and Directs | 165 |
Divine Canonical Discourse | 176 |
The Interpretative Community Responds and Enacts | 179 |
Jesus Spirit Church Scripture and Tradition in Theodramatic Perspective | 187 |
The Church as Performance of the Spirit? | 189 |
Canon and the Prophetic Authority of Jesus Christ | 193 |
The Church as History of Canonical Effects | 199 |
The Rule of Faith as Canonical | 203 |
The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Canon | 211 |
Genres as Types of Social Action | 212 |
Canonical Practices and Forms of Convenantal Life | 216 |
Figuring and Praying the Scriptures | 220 |
The Canon as Sapiential Criterion | 226 |
IV | 231 |
V | 239 |
The CanonicalLinguistic Approach Part Two Sapientia | 307 |
A Prosaic Theology | 309 |
A Phronetic Theology | 324 |
A Prophetic Thelogy | 354 |
VI | 361 |
Doctrine Role Vocation The Actors Prepare | 363 |
Casting Calls RolePlaying Being Oneself | 364 |
From Character To Spiritual Formation | 369 |
Atonement and Union with Christ | 380 |
Being Real | 394 |
Doctrine and the Church The Company of the Gospel | 399 |
The Empty Space | 401 |
Playing Corpus Christi | 407 |
Interactive Theater as Communio | 413 |
A Theater of Martyrdom | 426 |
Acting in Parables | 441 |
Creeds Confessions and the PastorDirector Doctrine and Theology in the Theater of Congregational Action | 445 |
Pastoral Theology | 447 |
Creedal Theology | 449 |
Confessional Theology | 451 |
Congregational Theology | 453 |
Selected Bibliography | 459 |
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