Michael Seewald (Germany University of Munster)

Theories of Doctrinal Development in the Catholic Church

Übersetzer: West, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theories of Doctrinal Development in the Catholic Church is an essential book for readers who want to understand the longue durà e dimension of contemporary discussions in the Catholic Church. It interprets source texts from two millennia (in English), and uses them to elaborate different theories of doctrinal development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781009272001
• ISBN-10: 1009272004
• Artikelnr.: 66113678

Autorenporträt

Michael Seewald, who holds both German and French citizenship, became a full professor at the age of twenty-nine, and now holds the chair at the University of Münster once occupied by Joseph Ratzinger and Karl Rahner. He has won several prizes, including the Karl Rahner Prize and the German Research Foundation's Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize, the first theologian to do so.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining dogma and development
2. The Bible: both product and yardstick of doctrinal development
3. How the early Church reflected on doctrinal continuity and change
4. Discussions in the Middle Ages on changes to the unchanging faith
Theories of doctrinal development in the nineteenth and early twentieth century
6. The twentieth century: from anti-modernism to the Second Vatican Council
7. Overview and outlook.