The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Biblia.com)

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The Nature of Doctrine, originally published in 1984, is one of the most influential works of academic theology in the past fifty years. A true classic, this book sets forth the central tenets of a post-liberal approach to theology, emphasizing a cultural-linguistic approach to religion and a rule theory of doctrine. In addition to his account of the nature of religion, George Lindbeck also...

determining similarities between languages are the grammatical patterns, the ways of referring, the semantic and syntactic structures. Something at least remotely analogous can be said to hold in the case of religions. The datum that all religions recommend something which can be called “love” toward that which is taken to be most important (“God”) is a banality as uninteresting as the fact that all languages are (or were) spoken. The significant things are the distinctive patterns of story, belief,

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