A Perennial Digression

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A Short Review of David Bentley Hart's Tradition and Apocalypse

A Short Review of David Bentley Hart's Tradition and Apocalypse

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Tradition and Apocalypse | Baker Publishing Group

I have no critiques of Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief. Its fundamental argument—that the traditional concept of “tradition” as a metaphysical force in all surviving post-Christendom Christianities, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and the various Protestant communities is incoherent, that a workable concept of tradition is h…

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