The Genesis of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundation of Doctrinal Criticism Book

	Preface
1	The Genesis of Doctrine	1
	Doctrine and Dogma	8
	Doctrine and Theology	10
2	The Nature of Doctrine: A Response to George Lindbeck	14
	The Cognitive-Propositional Theory	15
	The Experiential-Expressivist Theory	20
	The Cultural-Linguistic Theory	26
	A Preliminary Evaluation of Lindbeck's Analysis	32
3	The Nature of Doctrine: Four Theses	35
	Doctrine as Social Demarcation	37
	Doctrine as Interpretation of Narrative	52
	Doctrine as Interpretation of Experience	66
	Doctrine as Truth Claim	72
4	On Being Condemned to History	81
	The Strangeness of the Past	81
	The Concept of Cultural Relativism	86
	Theology and the Sociology of Knowledge	90
5	The Authority of the Past in Modern Christian Thought	103
	The Renaissance	104
	The Reformation	117
	The German Enlightenment	132
	The Historians of Dogma	145
	The Authority of the Past: The Covert Influence of Ideology	152
	The Recollection of the Past: A Theoretical Model	165
6	Tradition: Access to the Identity-Giving Past	172
	The Inevitability of the Past	173
	The Enlightenment Prejudice against Tradition	179
	The Memory of the Past	185
	The Hermeneutical Importance of a Community Tradition	188
	The Future of Doctrine	193
	Conclusion	198
	Abbreviations	201
	Notes	202
	Bibliography	237
	Index	260