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Christian doctrine, McClendon tells us, is no laundry list of propositions to be believed, but is rather an essential practice of the church. Doctrines are those shared convictions which the church must teach and live out if it is to be the church. The author rejects the prevailing assumptions stemming from the rationalism of the Enlightenment, and redefines theology as a discipline within the...

is an authority in the College, she may choose the recipient of the next sabbatical leave. On the other hand a historian who has studied the College archives has become an authority on the same college; he can tell us the name of the first President, and when the Department of Psychology was added. (Of course, these sorts of authority may both reside in one person.) Behind these two stands a third, which (with James M. Smith) I call here "criterial authority." By it, native speakers of Russian, for