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The survival of dogma

Title: The survival of dogma [by] Avery Dulles.
Author: Dulles, Avery, 1918-2008.
Publication: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.

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240 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"A distinguished theologian examines the role of faith, authority and dogma in this thoughtful and remarkably unified collection of essays and addresses. In this era of dramatic, often disturbing change both within and outside the Church, Avery Dulles finds that too many committed Christians are hampered by their lack of a sense of history. Believing that the Church's teachings and institutions have remained unchanged since the earliest days of Christianity, they tend to regard the old as sacred and the new as profane; they feel that the only options open to them are servile conformism of defiant rebellion. Father Dulles rejects this polarization, pointing our that dramatic changes in society at large have always brought equally far-reaching changes in the Church. From this perspective, he discusses a broad range of subjects, such as faith and the logic of discovery, authority and diversity in the Christian community, the contemporary magisterium, the permanence of prophecy and the "irreformability" of dogma - demonstrating his firm belief that the changes now occurring are not only desirable, but necessary for giving the Church a relevancy it has not had in this century." --

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- I. Faith and inquiry : -- The changing forms of faith -- Authority and insight in the assent of faith -- Faith, reason, and the logic of discovery -- Toward an apologetics of hope -- II. Teachers in the Church : -- Authority and pluralism in the Church -- Doctrinal authority in the Church -- The magisterium in a time of change -- The permanence of prophecy in the Church -- III. The revision of dogma : -- Doubt in the modern Church -- Dogma as an ecumenical problem -- The hermeneutics of dogmatic statements -- The "irreformability" of dogma -- Footnotes -- Sources -- Index.

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76139016

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ocm00134566
134566
SCSB-188820

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Princeton University Library