Senses of Tradition

Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith

• Author(s): John E. Thiel,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 254
• ISBN_10: 0195137264
  ISBN_13: 9780195137262
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christianity / Catholic , Religion / Christianity / History , Religion / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology , Religion / Faith , Religion / Theology ,

Description:... This book articulates a theory of Catholic tradition that departs from previous understandings. Drawing on the medieval concept of the four-fold sense of scripture, John Thiel proposes four interpretive senses of tradition. He also offers a theory of doctrinal development that reconciles Catholic belief in apostolic authority and continuity of tradition with a critical approach to the evidence of history.