The hermeneutics of doctrine

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Throughout the book Thiselton shows how perspectives that arise from hermeneutics shed fresh light on theological method, reshape horizons of understanding, and reveal the relevance of doctrine for formation and for life. --from publisher description. From free-floating "problems" to hermeneutical questions from life -- Dispositional accounts of belief -- Forms of life, embodiment, and place -- The hermeneutics of doctrine as a hermeneutic of temporal and communal narrative -- Formation, education, and training in hermeneutics and in doctrine -- Formation through a hermeneutic of alterity and provocation -- Dialectic in hermeneutics and doctrine : coherence and polyphony -- Can doctrine as "science" remain hermeneutical and promote formation? -- Varied horizons of understanding for the hermeneutics of being human -- Creation as a horizon of understanding for interpreting the human condition -- Being human : image of God, with others, and bodily and temporal life -- The hermeneutics of misdirected desire : the nature of human sin -- Toward a hermeneutic of the fall and collective sin -- Hermeneutics and linguistic currencies of theologies of the cross -- The hermeneutics of the work of Christ : interpreting biblical material -- Hermeneutical factors in the history of the doctrine of the atonement -- Hermeneutical approaches to christology -- The Holy Spirit : Scripture, history, experience, and hermeneutics -- The hermeneutics of the doctrine of God as Trinity -- The church and ministry in hermeneutical perspective -- The hermeneutics of word and sacraments : baptism and the Lord's Supper or the Eucharist -- Eschatology : the ultimate and definitive hermeneutical horizon of meaning.