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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| 'Catholic Baptists' and the New Horizon of Tradition in Baptist Theology | |
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| Baptist Theology and the Horizon of Tradition | |
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| The New Horizon of Tradition and the Emergence of 'Catholic Baptist' Theologians | |
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| Tradition as Source of Authority | |
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| Place for Creeds in Liturgy and Catechesis | |
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| Liturgy as Context for Formation by Tradition | |
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| Community as Locus of Authority | |
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| Sacramental Theology | |
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| Constructive Retrieval of Tradition | |
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| Thick Ecumenism | |
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| Towards Baptist Catholicity: Seeking a Place for Tradition in the Baptist Vision | |
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| Baptist Understandings of Theological Authority: A North American Perspective | |
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| The Baptist Ecclesial Location of the Perspective | |
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| Ultimate Authority: The Triune God | |
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| Derivative Authority: The Supremacy of the Scriptures | |
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| Divergent Understandings of Biblical Authority | |
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| Other Sources of Authority? | |
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| Baptists, Tradition, and Creeds | |
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| Towards a Baptist Rethinking of Authority | |
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| The Authority of the Community (of All the Saints): Towards a Postmodern Baptist Hermeneutic of Tradition | |
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| The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Baptist Suspicion of Tradition | |
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| Reevaluating the A-Traditional Baptist 'Tradition' | |
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| Paradigms for Postmodern Retrieval of Tradition: Some Non-Baptist Dialogue Partners | |
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| Thomas Oden: Postmodern Paleo-Orthodoxy | |
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| Karl Barth: Beginning with the Community of Faith | |
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| La Nouvelle Theologie: Renewal through Ressourcement | |
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| Alasdair MacIntyre: Tradition, Community, and Rationality | |
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| Paul Ricoeur: Tradition in the Second Naivite | |
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| John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Company: Radical Orthodoxy | |
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| Leonardo Boff and Catherine Mowry LaCugna: Traditional Resources for Liberation | |
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| Geoffrey Wainwright: The Liturgical Locus of Tradition | |
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| George Lindbeck and the 'New Yale Theology': Tradition as Communal Narrative | |
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| A Postmodern Baptist Hermeneutic of Tradition | |
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| The Normative Function of Tradition: The Authority of the Community (of All the Saints) | |
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| The Vehicle of Tradition: The Story of the Community | |
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| The Critical Function of Tradition: The Argument of the Community | |
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| Baptist Confessions of Faith and the Patristic Tradition | |
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| Vestiges of the Patristic Tradition in Baptist Confessions | |
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| First Historical Thesis | |
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| Second Historical Thesis | |
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| Third Historical Thesis | |
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| Constructive Proposals for Interaction with the Patristic Tradition in Future Baptist Confessions | |
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| First Constructive Proposal | |
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| Second Constructive Proposal | |
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| Third Constructive Proposal | |
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| From Triadic Narrative to Narrating the Triune God: Towards a Baptist Appreciation of Trinitarian Catholicity | |
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| The Economic Legacy of the Triadic Narrative: Ignatius of Antioch | |
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| The Trinity in the New Testament Traditions | |
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| The Trinity in the Ignatian Correspondence | |
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| Narrating the Triune God: Ecclesial Shaping of the Story | |
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| Explaining the Narrative to Outsiders: The Greek Apologists | |
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| Problematic Versions of the Narrative: Monarchianism and Its Opponents | |
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| Contesting the Plot: The Arian Controversy | |
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| Refining Liturgical Narration: The Pneumatomachian Controversy | |
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| Character Development: The Clarification of Trinitarian Relations | |
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| Hebrews in Patristic Perspective: Benefits of Catholicity for Baptist Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Patristic Homilies and Commentaries on Hebrews | |
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| The Place of Hebrews in the Development of Patristic Theology | |
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| Alexandrian Christology | |
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| Antiochene Christology | |
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| Hebrews 2.10-18 and the Suffering of Christ | |
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| Patristic Resources for Teaching and Preaching Hebrews Today | |
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| Hebrews 6.1-8 and Apostasy | |
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| Patristic Exegesis and Baptist Proclamation of Hebrews | |
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| Hearing the Voice of the Community: Karl Barth's Conversation with the Fathers as a Paradigm for Baptist and Evangelical Ressourcement | |
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| Biographical Evidence of Barth's Interest in the Fathers | |
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| The Shape of Patristic Retrieval in the Church Dogmatics | |
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| Patristic Conversation Partners | |
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| Augustine of Hippo | |
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| Eastern Conversation Partners | |
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| Communal Expressions of Patristic Theology | |
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| Doctrinal Loci of the Conversation | |
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| Agenda of the Conversation | |
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| Barthian Possibilities for Baptist and Evangelical Retrieval of Patristic Theology | |
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| Returning Ad Fontes | |
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| Collaborating in the Conversation | |
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| Discerning the Voice of the Community | |
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| Baptist Systematic Theology and Patristic Retrieval | |
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| Listening Eastwards and Westwards | |
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| Catholicity Beyond Trinitarian and Christological Orthodoxy | |
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| Listening Critically | |
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| Praying and Believing: Retrieving the Patristic Interdependence of Worship and Theology | |
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| The Interdependence of Worship and Theology in Patristic Practice: A Narrative Interpretation | |
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| Rehearsal of the Divine Story in Typical Baptist Worship | |
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| Theologically Formative Patterns and Practices from Patristic Worship: Resources for Retrieval | |
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| Calendar | |
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| Lectionary | |
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| Word and Table | |
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| Creed | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Confession and Pardon | |
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| Passing of the Peace | |
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| Lives of the Saints | |
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| Hymns | |
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| Implementing Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi in Baptist Congregations | |
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| Contesting Our Story: Catholicity and Communal Conflict in Baptist Higher Education | |
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| Sources of Communal Conflict over Faith-and-Learning Proposals | |
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| Theological Controversies | |
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| Political Polarization | |
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| Mutual Suspicion | |
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| Embracing Conflict as Contested Catholicity | |
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| The Contested Character of the Christian Tradition | |
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| The Narrative Shape of the Christian Tradition | |
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| The Liturgical Locus of the Christian Tradition | |
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| The Importance of Intra-Faculty Theological Education | |
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| 'What Keeps You from Becoming a Catholic?' A Personal Epilogue | |
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| Precedents for 'Conversion' | |
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| Why Not Rome, Constantinople, or Canterbury? | |
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| Negligible Reservations | |
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| Ecclesial and Ecumenical Responsibility | |
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| A More Precise Definition of 'Catholicity' | |
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| Precedents for Catholic Renewal within Protestant Denominations | |
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| The Oxford Movement | |
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| The Mercersburg Theology | |
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| The Berneuchener Movement | |
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| An Invitation to a Conversation | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Re-Envisioning Baptist Identity: A Manifesto for Baptist Communities in North America | |
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| Confessing the Faith | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Ancient Texts | |
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| Modern Literature | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |