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Proving Doctrine: The Uses of Scripture in Modern Theology - Softcover

David H. Kelsey

 
9781563382833: Proving Doctrine: The Uses of Scripture in Modern Theology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1563382830 ISBN 13: 9781563382833
Publisher: Trinity Press International, 1999

Synopsis

How does properly interpreted scripture bear on Christian theology and ethics? That is the question addressed in the Trinity Press edition of this classic text, which includes a new preface by the author. The issue is not so much how to interpret scripture as what to do with it once one has interpreted it. The book therefore explores not what theologians have said about scripture's authority for theology, but the sense in which scripture serves as authority in their actual practice of theology.

It offers a set of brief case studies of theologians authorizing or proving" a theological proposal by scripture, and based on these studies, an analysis of the concept of "authority for theology" implicit in them. Finally, it teases out of the cases implicit assumptions about what the concept of scripture means and why appeal ought to be made to it to "prove theology."

"Kelsey has given us a book that deserves the serious attention not only of professional theologians but also of pastors and all those in the Christian community who understand their personal identity and the identity of their community to be shaped in some sense by scripture." -- Theology Today

David H. Kelsey is Luther Weigle Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Yale Graduate School."

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About the Author

David H. Kelsey is Luther Weigle Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Yale Graduate School.

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Publisher
Trinity Press International
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1563382830
ISBN 13 
9781563382833
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248