Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith

Contents......Page 10
Introduction: Senses of Scripture and Tradition......Page 14
Beyond the Literal Sense......Page 16
Beyond the Literal Sense of Tradition?......Page 21
The Integrity of Tradition......Page 24
Orientation and Assumptions......Page 36
1 The Literal Sense of Tradition......Page 42
The Plain Sense of Tradition......Page 45
The Canon of Tradition......Page 50
Infallibility......Page 57
Universality......Page 63
2 Development-in-Continuity as a Sense of Tradition......Page 67
Models of Development......Page 68
The Modern Models and the Problem of Prospectivity......Page 87
A Retrospective Conception of Tradition......Page 95
Postmodern Allegory......Page 106
3 Dramatic Development as a Sense of Tradition......Page 111
Dramatic Development: Illustrations and Criteria......Page 113
Possible Examples of Dramatically Developing Doctrine......Page 120
Arguments That Matter Not......Page 125
Arguments without "Foundations"......Page 127
Reasoning with Authority......Page 131
Reconfiguring Continuity......Page 136
4 Incipient Development as a Sense of Tradition......Page 140
Examples of Incipient Development......Page 144
The Regionality of Fourth-Sense Claims......Page 160
The Fourth Sense and the Future of Tradition......Page 164
Incipience in the Narrative of Tradition......Page 167
5 Discerning the Senses of Tradition......Page 172
Theological Responsibility......Page 174
Criteria for Traditional Discernment......Page 177
Discernment and the Act of Faith......Page 183
Discernment and the Sensus Fidei......Page 192
6 Tradition and Theology......Page 198
The Style of Narrative Theology and the Literal Sense......Page 201
The Style of Hermeneutical Theology and the Sense of Development-in-Continuity......Page 208
The Style of Critical Theology and the Senses of Incipient and Dramatic Development......Page 214
Tradition in the Spectrum of Theological Styles......Page 219
Notes......Page 224
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