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Drawing on the resources of contemporary hermeneutical theory, Anthony Thiselton in this volume masterfully recovers the formative and transformative power of Christian doctrine. The past 35 years have witnessed major steps forward in the use of hermeneutics in biblical studies, but never before has hermeneutics made a comparable impact on the formulation of doctrine and our engagement with it....

We have already noted that confessions of faith in the New Testament and the early church are communal belief-utterances that share commonly transmitted and received apostolic testimony or doctrine. We shall examine this communal aspect further in the next chapter, where we shall argue that doctrine may be perceived as the corporate memory and communal celebration of the
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