id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 6969z031n54 Andrew N. Downing, S.J. The Problem and Promise of History in the Theology of J. S. Drey 2013 .txt text/plain 340 8 24 Drey's theology offers a distinctive response to these questions, at once acknowledging the problem history poses to religious belief in the modern age and maintaining the essential significance of historical revelation for Christian faith. He further advances a theory of living tradition, born through history by the Christian community, to explain how divine revelation is mediated through time to contemporary believers and thereby secures an historical basis for Christian faith. cache/6969z031n54.txt txt/6969z031n54.txt