tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post113035754409038897..comments2024-01-08T11:08:42.530-05:00Comments on in-fraction: Am I closer to right or further to stupid?tchittomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post-1138310707740917582006-01-26T16:25:00.000-05:002006-01-26T16:25:00.000-05:00Kevin J. Vanhoozer. The Drama of Doctrine: A Canon...Kevin J. Vanhoozer. <I>The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology</I>. Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-664-22327-3 504pp. Critiquing George Lindbeck's highly influential <I>The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age</I> (1984), kevin Vanhoozer proposes a radical paradigm shift from Lindbeck's "cultural-linguistic" approach to Christian theology. Christian identity, he argues, is not formed within our human selves or within Christian community; rather, it is formed wholly outside of ourselves, in our given script: the Holy Scriptures. In a sustained and systematic argument, Vanhoozer describes how Christian doctrine is the drama of history, of how the Christian community, guided by the direction of the Holy Spirit, has come to live out the Christian life, as revealed in Scripture. In focusing on the role of doctrine in the life of a believing community, Vanhoozer claims that the Christian's vocation is to discern and to play one's role in the drama of redemption with "creative fidelity."tchittomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.com