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The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Observing a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church—the theater of the gospel—by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ....

tend to think of themselves as postdenominational.4 Wolfe’s argument, flawed and incomplete though it may be, nevertheless paints a plausible and sobering picture: “Evangelical churches lack doctrine because they want to attract new members. Mainline churches lack doctrine because they want to hold on to those declining numbers of members they have.”5 The Drama of Doctrine argues that there is no more urgent task in the church than to demonstrate faith’s understanding by living truthfully with others
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