Loading…

Foundations of Systematic Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Guarino argues in this volume that the doctrinal form of the Christian faith, in its essential characteristics, calls for certain theoretical exigencies. This is to say that the proportion and beauty of the form is not served or illuminated by simply any presuppositions. Rather, a determinate understanding of first philosophy, of the nature of truth, of hermeneutical theory, of the predication of...

endorsing an important place for significant elements of a first philosophy. With the neo-Barthian postliberals, this approach rejects the secular foundationalism that seeks to provide a universally available option outside of faith now serving as a norm for faith’s claims. Lindbeck is quite right in saying that Christianity cannot endorse a profane Archimedean touchstone that judges its truth-claims and acts as an epistemological standard to which Christian faith must adhere. If pushed too far,
Page 321