GOA-Project: The Normativity of History

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Drawing upon the expertise gathered in a previous GOA-project on 'Orthodoxy: Process and Product', the current project unites three research groups into a broad research platform. This platform includes three joint research avenues, each of which always involves two of the three groups. Each avenue focuses on particular aspects of the general research questions, engaging the issue of the normativity of history. The first avenue deals with tradition, tradition development and hermeneutics, both from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. The second avenue investigates the relation between tradition and theological truth, i.e. the question of tradition bound truth in contemporary theological epistemologies. The third avenue functions as it were as a special case between the two former avenues, focussing on the devel- opment of a particular tradition and its implications for today.