Theology as retrieval : receiving the past, renewing the church / W. David Buschart & Kent D. Eilers.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Receiving and Transmitting the Deposit of Faith; The Shape of Theological Retrieval: Resemblances, Models and Authority; Method, Organization and Overview; 1 Scripture; Commonality and Diversity; Vantage Points for Theological Interpretation of Scripture; Theological Cultures That Prosper TIS; The Spiritual Sense and Spiritual Practices; Configuring Theology and Exegesis by the Rule of Faith; Conclusion; 2 Theology; An Alien Relevance: Theological Pasts; Theology for the Christian Life.

Retrieval of and for a Trinitarian GospelFred Sanders: The Deep Things of God; Donald Fairbairn: Life in the Trinity; Conclusion; 3 Worship; Whose House Is This?; An Alternative Way; Resources; Worship in the Key of Retrieval; Bloom; New Life Downtown; Conclusion; 4 Spirituality; A Need for Wisdom; Quest for Sages and Sources; Cruciform Wisdom; Spirituality Guided by Christian Wisdom; Tom Schwanda: Soul Recreation; Gary Neal Hansen: Kneeling with Giants; Conclusion; 5 Mission; Five Expressions of New Monasticism; The Monastic Impulse.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Cultivating and Sustaining the New Monastic Theological ImaginationThe Monastic Impulse as Social Imaginary; Etienne Wenger: Imagination, Practices, Reification and Repertoire; Conclusion; 6 Cosmos; Radical Orthodoxy; Reclaiming the Cosmos, or "Once there was no secular"; Improvising Tradition's Harmony(s); Constraint and Freedom in Jazz Improvisation; Catherine Pickstock: Tradition and the Drift of Time; John Milbank: Renarrating Christ and Tradition; Conclusion; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index; Scripture Index.

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""Tradition is the living faith of the dead.""--Jaroslav Pelikan The movement to retrieve the Christian past is a mode of theological discernment, a cultivated habit of thought. It views the doctrines, practices and resonant realities of the Christian tradition as deep wells for a thirsty age. This movement across the church looks back in order to move forward. David Buschart and Kent Eilers survey this varied movement and identify six areas where the impulse and practice of retrieval has been notably fruitful and suggestive: the interpretation of Scripture, the articulation of theology, the pr.

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