Contents -- Introduction: Senses of Scripture and Tradition -- Beyond the Literal Sense -- Beyond the Literal Sense of Tradition? -- The Integrity of Tradition -- Orientation and Assumptions -- 1 The Literal Sense of Tradition -- The Plain Sense of Tradition -- The Canon of Tradition -- Infallibility -- Universality -- 2 Development-in-Continuity as a Sense of Tradition -- Models of Development -- The Modern Models and the Problem of Prospectivity -- A Retrospective Conception of Tradition -- Postmodern Allegory -- 3 Dramatic Development as a Sense of Tradition -- Dramatic Development: Illustrations and Criteria -- Possible Examples of Dramatically Developing Doctrine -- Arguments That Matter Not -- Arguments without "Foundations" -- Reasoning with Authority -- Reconfiguring Continuity -- 4 Incipient Development as a Sense of Tradition -- Examples of Incipient Development -- The Regionality of Fourth-Sense Claims -- The Fourth Sense and the Future of Tradition -- Incipience in the Narrative of Tradition -- 5 Discerning the Senses of Tradition -- Theological Responsibility -- Criteria for Traditional Discernment -- Discernment and the Act of Faith -- Discernment and the Sensus Fidei -- 6 Tradition and Theology -- The Style of Narrative Theology and the Literal Sense -- The Style of Hermeneutical Theology and the Sense of Development-in-Continuity -- The Style of Critical Theology and the Senses of Incipient and Dramatic Development -- Tradition in the Spectrum of Theological Styles -- Notes -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.