TY  - BOOK
TI  - Theology and authority: maintaining a tradition of tension 
SN  - 0913573779
AV  - BT 88 T34 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Peabody, MA
PB  - Hendrickson Publishers
KW  - AUTHORITY
KW  - RELIGION ASPECTS
KW  - CHRISTIANITY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; About the contributors --
Foreword: theology and authority --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction: every context includes a context --

Part 1 --
1. Authority: the New Testament and first-century Judaism in cultural perspective --
2. Jesus and the language of authority --
3. Power or powerlessness: the vision Francis of Assisi --
4. Re-thinking authority: imaginative options and the modernist controversy --
5. The contemporary theologian: teacher, prophet, doctor --

Part 2 --
6. Theology and authority: a cross-cultural analysis of theological scripts --
7. Theology, hierarchy, and power --
8. Episcopal teaching authority on matters of war and economics --
9. Stages of authority: Kung vs. the Vatican in Fowler's categories --
10. Theology and authority: the theological issues
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