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George A. Lindbeck · 1984
A theological work proposing a postliberal understanding of Christian doctrine as a cultural-linguistic system rather than experiential-expressive, examining how doctrine functions in ecumenical dialogue and religious practice.
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What this book knows
Doctrine functions as communal grammar, not propositional truth-claim or felt experience — religions are cultural-linguistic worlds shaping what can be said and felt.
faith-and-doubt
Religions produce experiences, but the causality is reciprocal — patterns of experience alien to a given religion are difficult to have.
NDRT-RC-017Kant's reduction of God to a transcendental condition of morality left religion intolerably impoverished — Schleiermacher filled the breach with experiential-expressivism.
NDRT-RC-036Anomalies accumulate, old categories fail — if new concepts are not found, consequences can be intellectually and religiously traumatic.
NDRT-RC-009obedience-and-authority
Doctrines regulate truth claims by excluding some and permitting others, but the logic of their functioning is regulative, not propositional.
NDRT-RC-034Nicaea and Chalcedon treated as unconditionally permanent; immortality of the soul perhaps conditional, temporary, reversible depending on anthropological framework.
NDRT-RC-059education-and-formation
Tribal members lack verbal categories for experiencing color differences their retinas register — language shapes what can be experienced, not merely described.
NDRT-RC-021Illuminates
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