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Ausgabe:

April/2017

Spalte:

426-427

Kategorie:

Systematische Theologie: Dogmatik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Levering, Matthew

Titel/Untertitel:

Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation. The Mediation of the Gospel through Church and Scripture.

Verlag:

Ada: Baker Academic 2014. 384 S. Geb. US$ 45,00. ISBN 978-0-8010-4924-8.

Rezensent:

Eric E. Hall

In his Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation, Matthew Levering writes an accessible, interesting, and engaging book on the Catholic notion of revelation. His point seems a justification and clarification of Vatican II conceptions of revelation, especially propositional revelation, and the necessity of unfolding revelation through tradition and the persons attached to, and constituted by tradition. Accordingly, L. states that »we do not have revelation without faithful mediation – and the mediation of God’s word and deeds that we find in canonical scripture is inseperable from the mediation of the covenental community.« (3) His Basic argument and structure for doing so is as follows.
The book begins in earnest as any book on the question of Christian revelation ought to: ...


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