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Methods and Presuppositions |
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The Problem of Doctrinal Development |
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17 | (1) |
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Clarification and Definition of Key Terms |
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18 | (11) |
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18 | (4) |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (4) |
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Doctrinal Development and the Study of History |
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The Rise of Historical Consciousness |
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29 | (2) |
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The Historical Study of Doctrinal Development |
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31 | (5) |
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The Importance of History for Theology |
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36 | (3) |
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The Dilemma of Doctrinal Development |
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39 | (9) |
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The Universal Scope of the Problem |
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39 | (5) |
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The Complex Nature of the Issue |
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44 | (1) |
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The Hermeneutical Crux of the Matter |
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45 | (3) |
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48 | (3) |
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Conceptual Models of Doctrinal Development |
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51 | (1) |
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Unvarying Doctrine--The Immobilist-Stationary Approach of Traditional Theology |
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52 | (10) |
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The Model of Conceptual Completion (The Historical Theory) |
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54 | (4) |
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The Model of Logical Explication (The Logical Theory) |
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58 | (3) |
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The Model of Progressive Revelation (The New Revelation Theory) |
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61 | (1) |
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Developing Doctrine--The Progressivist-Evolutionary Approach of Modern Theology |
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The Model of Unlimited Progress (The Transformistic Theory) |
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64 | (3) |
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The Model of Organic Unfolding (The Organistic Theory) |
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67 | (2) |
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The Model of Ideal Growth (The Psychological Theory) |
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69 | (4) |
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The Model of Controlled Advance (The Theological Theory) |
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73 | (2) |
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Development as a Supra-Rational Process |
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75 | (1) |
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Development as a Supernatural Process |
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75 | (1) |
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Development as a Magisterially Guaranteed Process |
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76 | (1) |
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Development as a Multilateral Process |
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76 | (4) |
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Transmutating Doctrine--The Revisionist-Revolutionary Approach of Contemporary Theology |
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Models of Radical Revisionism (Revisionist Theories) |
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83 | (1) |
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Bultmann's Existential Reinterpretation |
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83 | (1) |
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Tillich's Existential Correlation |
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83 | (2) |
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The New Hermeneutic's Word Event |
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85 | (1) |
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Radical Theology's Consistent Secularism |
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85 | (1) |
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Process Theology's Permanent Reconstruction |
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86 | (2) |
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Models of Historical Perspectivism (Situationist Theories) |
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88 | (6) |
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Dewart's Doctrinal Dehellenization |
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Baum's Corrective Refocusing |
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91 | (1) |
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Dulles's Creative Adaptation |
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92 | (1) |
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Wiles's Perspectival Alteration |
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92 | (1) |
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Pannenberg's Proleptic (Re-)Formulation |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (3) |
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A `Typology' of Theories on Doctrinal Development |
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97 | (22) |
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97 | (2) |
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99 | (5) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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Varieties and Representatives |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (3) |
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The Evolutionary/Revolutionary Type |
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104 | (4) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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Varieties and Representatives |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (8) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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Varieties and Representatives |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (3) |
| Summary and Conclusion |
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119 | (4) |
| Appendix |
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| Other Revisionist Models of Doctrinal Development |
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123 | (4) |
| Synoptic Table of Theories of Doctrinal Development |
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127 | (4) |
| Selected Bibliography |
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131 | (1) |
| Bibliographies |
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131 | (1) |
| Books |
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132 | (16) |
| Articles |
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148 | (8) |
| Dissertations |
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