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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...

along with Heidegger, Rorty, and postmodernism generally, has little use for the kind of theologically disciplined first philosophy, or its allied correlates, that the understanding of revelation, ultimately issuing forth in Christian doctrine, seemingly calls for. Another contemporary thinker who offers significant challenges to the traditional understanding of Christian doctrine and the characteristics classically attributed to it is Roman Catholic philosopher John Caputo. In a spate of books and
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