This collection of essays engages the basic themes of the five-year,
joint research project (GOA) The Normativity of History. The
project brought together specialists in the areas of Church History and
Systematic Theology to investigate questions of truth and tradition in
light of their varying expertise. The thematic scope of this volume
includes questions concerning tradition and its development, the present
context of plurality and its challenges for discerning a theological
epistemology of tradition-bound truth, and the challenges of religious
diversity for contemporary theology. As a whole, these reflections
suggest that the force and weight of history must be adequately
accounted for when attempting to answer theological questions in a
manner that does justice to a tradition that is very much embedded in
and shaped by the complexities manifest in its living and at times,
ambiguous history.