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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... Responses to Unasked Questions , " in Graham Ward , ed . , The Postmodern God : A Theological Reader ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1997 ) , 267. Milbank espouses what I shall call " hard cultural - linguistic theol- ogy . " I shall designate ...
... response to something beheld — beheld not theoretically but , as it were , theatrically : a lived performance . For the " word of life " is nothing less than the life of Jesus , the Word — a historical drama . " His story is the non ...
... response to its disobedience : " For the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land " ( Hos . 4 : 1 ) . Conversely , human beings can bring complaints or accusations against God , as in Job 23 : 1-7 , where job ques ...
... response to the gospel that are more or less faithful , which is another way of saying that its response more or less distorting . That is precisely why no one reception of the text — nei- ther commentary nor community — is equal to the ...
... response in word and deed , then doctrine is best viewed as direction for the church's fitting participation in the drama of redemp- tion ( chap . 3 ) . Part 2 : The Script Part 2 tackles a variety of issues that concern the ...
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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