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Joey Sherrard

Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy

Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy

The premise of this work is that although the Old Testament “provides the basic grammar for the church’s confession on creation, providence, figuration, the nature of biblical inspiration, authorship, Trinity, Christology, soteriology, and ecclesiology”—in short, for Christian faith and practice—its witness has been neglected in the modern period, leading to a variety of problems within the Christian church (pp. 1-2).