TY - JOUR
AU - Mackey, James P.
AB -  Gunn, E. Colin (ed.). 1997. The Cambridge Companion Doctrine, Cambridge University Press, pp. xix and 307. Christian who take Barth as their inspiration (and even the ethicist, Hauerwas, does this, despite being so often questioned about the ethical integrity of doing so), but of the kind of typically evangelical Protestant theology which in this book is the chosen companion Christian doctrine. The point, in crude summary is this. Revelation is the foundation and central supporting column on which Barth's dogmatics is built. But revelation is realised only the degree in which what is (objectively) unveiled is (subjectively) known. Hence it is perfectly legitimate derive an account of the substance and provenance of the Christian faith from a survey of the forms, processes and content of Christian consciousness which is precisely what Schleiermacher does. Then when one wishes secure the absolute uniqueness of Jesus the Christ and of Christianity (why?) for every-one-thing-religion is relatively unique one has insist, not only that the content of Christian consciousness and it alone yields the true substance of the faith (exactly what Schleiermacher does when he says that dogmatics can be done only within the Christian church, i.e., only by those who are 
TI - Gunton, E. Colin (ed.). 1997 . The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine , Cambridge University Press, pp. xix and 307.
JF - Studies in World Christianity
DO - 10.3366/swc.1998.4.Part_1.107
DA - 1998-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/edinburgh-university-press/gunton-e-colin-ed-1997-the-cambridge-companion-to-christian-doctrine-DHvqKLmCSp
SP - 107
EP - 112
VL - 4
IS - Part_1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -