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The Recovery of Doctrine in the Contemporary Church

An Essay in Philosophical Ecclesiology
By:Richard Heyduck
Publisher:Baylor University Press (LONGLEAF)
Print ISBN:9780918954800
eText ISBN:9781481306560
Edition:0
Copyright:2001
Format:Page Fidelity

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In this book, Richard Heyduck examines the false options on doctrine that modernity has offered the church, especially his own tradition, United Methodism, and suggests ways to get beyond this impasse. Utilizing some resources of postmodern philosophy, Heyduck argues that doctrine is neither a catalog of truths to which assent must be given nor an accidental verbalization of universal religious experience. Instead, Christian doctrine is that which enables the church to live faithfully in the drama of God's ongoing action in history.