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Milbank contrasts de Lubac\u2019s advocacy of patristic and medieval hermeneutics, which insists that the allegorical fulfills and completes the literal, with the Yale school, which he sees as living in \u201cthe no-man\u2019s land of \u2018history-like narrative\u2019 which at once abolishes real <\/em> history and <\/em> ignores the essential allegorical underpinning of Christian doctrine.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milbank contrasts de Lubac\u2019s advocacy of patristic and medieval hermeneutics, which insists that the allegorical fulfills and completes the literal, with the Yale school, which he sees as living in \u201cthe no-man\u2019s land of \u2018history-like narrative\u2019 which at once abolishes real history and ignores the essential allegorical underpinning of Christian doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hermeneutics"],"yoast_head":"\nAgainst Yale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Milbank contrasts de Lubac’s advocacy of patristic and medieval hermeneutics, which insists that the allegorical fulfills and completes the literal,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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