Trinity and Truth

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Pub. Date: 1999-11-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Two closely related questions receive distinctively theological answers in this study: What is truth? and How can we tell whether what we have said is true? Bruce Marshall proposes that the Christian community's identification of God as the Trinity serves as the key to a theologically adequate treatment of these questions. Professor Marshall argues on trinitarian grounds that the Christian way of identifying God ought to have unrestricted primacy when it comes to the justification of belief, and he proposes a trinitarian way of reshaping the concept of truth. Direct engagement with the current philosophical debate about truth, meaning and belief (in Quine and others) suggests that a trinitarian account of epistemic justification and truth is also more philosophically compelling than the approaches generally favoured in modern theology, as exemplified by Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Rahner and others. Marshall offers a contemporary way of conceiving of the Christian God as 'the truth'.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
A note on translations xiv
Introduction: theology and truth
1(16)
Truth as a theological problem
1(5)
Definitions
6(11)
The triune God as the center of Christian belief
17(33)
The concept of Christian belief
17(7)
The liturgical centrality of the Trinity
24(20)
Communal centrality and epistemic primacy
44(6)
Epistemic justification in modern theology
50(22)
Three theses on justification: a case study
51(11)
Variations
62(10)
Problems about justification
72(36)
The belief-dependence of inner experience
72(8)
Only beliefs justify beliefs
80(10)
The truth-dependence of meaning and interpretation
90(18)
The epistemic primacy of belief in the Trinity
108(33)
Jesus' universal primacy
108(7)
Epistemic right as christological coherence
115(11)
Epistemic priorities, truth commitments, and plausible interpretation
126(15)
Epistemic priorities and alien claims
141(39)
Fideism and epistemic priorities
141(6)
Inclusion and assimilation
147(6)
The epistemic force of inclusive power
153(6)
The limits of epistemic judgment
159(10)
A test case: religious diversity
169(11)
The epistemic role of the Spirit
180(37)
The pragmatic thesis
182(3)
The epistemic limits of virtue
185(6)
Practice and meaning
191(13)
Love and belief
204(8)
Can we control what we believe?
212(5)
The concept of truth
217(25)
Realism in search of a truth bearer
217(6)
Different ways of rejecting realism
223(10)
Truth without realism or anti-realism
233(9)
Trinity, truth, and belief
242(41)
Truth under theological discipline
242(17)
The trinitarian shape of the concept of truth
259(16)
Trinity, justified belief, and truth
275(8)
Index 283

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