Vattimo and Ecclesiology.
Gianni Vattimo (b. 1936) is a postmodern philosopher working within the field of hermeneutics. For someone who is not a theologian first and foremost and who only views himself as a 'half‐believer', it is perhaps hard to see what he could possibly have to contribute to a debate on ecclesiology, a th...
| Published in: | Heythrop Journal Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 666 - 676 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2022
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