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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...
claims, and a crucial theological challenge to a cultural-linguistic approach is whether it also can do so. The discussion of this challenge will inevitably be somewhat technical. We need, first, to distinguish between what I shall call the “intrasystematic” and the “ontological” truth of statements. The first is the truth of coherence; the second, that truth of correspondence to reality which, according to epistemological realists, is attributable to first-order propositions. Utterances are intrasystematically
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