This position may become more important in disciplines ancillary to theology than in theology itself; as liberalism left systematic theology and went to live with psychology of religion and Christian education for a while, so neo-orthodoxy may have its immediate future
in history of doctrine, Old Testament and perhaps in ethics.
At the back of Mr. Alger's «
Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life,» there is a bibliography of more than five thousand titles of books in which it is treated.
As Ormrod LJ stated in Cummings v Granger the words of this section should be given «their ordinary English meaning» and the question should not be complicated too much with the «old,
long history of the doctrine of volenti».
Whatever the ultimate outcome for Bonhoeffer in
the history of doctrine and the history of the modern church, his name is certainly one of influence.
There is, however, a remarkable fact which appears when we look at
the history of the doctrine of atonement.
R. S. Franks,
A History of the Doctrine of the Work of Christ (New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1918), is standard.
Then after nearly a lifetime of studying
the history of doctrine, Pelikan, a lifelong Lutheran, was received into the Orthodox Church, just a few years before he died last May at age 82.
Over the next several posts, I want to explain
the history of the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture, the passages that are used to defend it, and provide a slightly modified and nuanced approach to the process by which I think God might have superintended the writing of Scripture.
Though debate about requirements has always me on, it was once largely accepted that the essential elements of study include Scripture, systematic theology, church story,
the history of doctrine, and various combinations of practical theology.
There is no self - conscious theology of revelation in the Scriptures, and the topic receives little formal attention even in
the history of doctrine up until about the time of the Enlightenment.
Full critical discussion of
the history of the doctrine of the imago dei in Emil Brunner, Man in Revolt (London: Lutterworth Press, 1939; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939), Appendix 1.
Studies in
the history of doctrine demonstrate that there is development in the teaching of the Church.
This is just a small piece of
the history of the doctrine.
In the second half of his work, Bonhoeffer speaks of
the history of doctrines concerning Christ.
After reviewing
the history of the doctrine and the recent «diverging» Canadian case law on when an oral contract to sell land may be enforced because it has been partially performed, Wilson concludes that «the current lack of certainty leaves the issue open to arguments on both sides, and accordingly an appreciation of the doctrine of part performance will be invaluable to both vendors» and purchasers» counsel.»