Systematic theologyAddresses the overall issue of meaning and meaningless from a mid-twentieth century perspective. Focuses on God as the "ground of being," Christology, and life in the spirit |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
2 Apologetic Theology and the Kerygma | 11 |
B The Nature of Systematic Theology | 11 |
4 Two Formal Criteria of Every Theology | 11 |
5 Theology and Christianity | 15 |
A Question | 18 |
An Answer | 22 |
C The Organization of Theology | 28 |
BEING AND THE QUESTION OF GOD | 163 |
Self and World | 168 |
2 The Logical and the Ontological Object | 171 |
B The Ontological Elements | 174 |
4 Dynamics and Form | 178 |
5 Freedom and Destiny | 182 |
C Being and Finitude | 186 |
7 The Finite and Infinite | 189 |
D The Method and Structure of Systematic Theology | 34 |
9 Experience and Systematic Theology | 40 |
10 The Norm of Systematic Theology | 47 |
11 The Rational Character of Systematic Theology | 53 |
12 The Method of Correlation | 59 |
13 The Theological System | 66 |
REASON AND THE QUEST FOR REVELATION | 71 |
2 Subjective and Objective Reason | 75 |
3 The Depth of Reason | 79 |
B Reason in Existence | 81 |
5 The Conflict within Actual Reason and the Quest for Revelation | 83 |
C The Cognitive Function of Reason and the Quest for Revelation | 94 |
7 Cognative Relations | 97 |
8 Truth and Verification | 100 |
THE REALITY OF REVELATION | 106 |
2 The Mediums of Revelation | 118 |
Original and Dependent Revelation | 126 |
4 The Knowledge of Revelation | 129 |
B Actual Revelation | 132 |
6 The Final Revelation in Jesus as the Christ | 135 |
7 The History of Revelation | 137 |
8 Revelation and Salvation | 144 |
C Reason in Final Revelation | 147 |
10 Final Revelation Overcoming the Conflict between Absolutism and Relativism | 150 |
11 Final Revelation Overcoming the Conflict between Formalism and Emotionalism | 153 |
D The Ground of Revelation | 155 |
13 Final Revelation and the Word of God | 157 |
8 Finitude and the Categories | 192 |
9 Finitude and the Ontological Elements | 198 |
10 Essemtial and Existential Being | 202 |
D Human Finitude and the Question of God | 204 |
12 The Necessity of the Question of God and the Socalled Cosmological Arguments | 208 |
THE REALITY OF GOD | 211 |
b God and the Idea of the Holy | 215 |
2 Typological Considerations | 218 |
b Types of Polytheism | 222 |
c Types of Monotheism | 225 |
d Philosophical Transformations | 230 |
B The Actuality of God | 235 |
b God as Being and Knowledge of God | 238 |
4 God as Living | 241 |
b The Divine Life and the Ontological Elements | 244 |
c God as Spirit and the Trinitarian Principles | 249 |
5 God as Creating | 252 |
a Gods Originating Creativity | 253 |
b Gods Sustaining Creativity | 261 |
c Gods Directing Creativity | 263 |
6 God as Related | 271 |
b The Divine Power and the Creature | 272 |
c The Divine Love and the Creature | 279 |
d God as Lord and Father | 286 |
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