| CHAPTER 1 / INTRODUCTION |
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| 1. What is Theology? |
1 |
| 2. Formative Factors in Theology |
4 |
| 3. The Development of Doctrine |
18 |
| 4. Theology in Relation to Other Discipplines |
21 |
| 5. Theological Method |
33 |
| 6. The Division of Theology |
39 |
| PART ONE PHILISOPHICAL THEOLOGY |
41 |
| CHAPTER 2 / THE TASK OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY |
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| 7. Philosophical Theology and Natural Theology |
43 |
| 8. Philosophical Criticisms of Natural Theology |
46 |
| 9. Theological Criticisms of Natural Theology |
49 |
| 10. Principles of a Philosophical Theology or New Style Natural Theology |
54 |
| CHAPTER 3 / HUMAN EXISTENCE |
59 |
| 11. human Existence and its Polarities |
59 |
| 12. The Individual and Society |
66 |
| 13. The Disorder of Existence |
68 |
| 14. Selfhood and Faith |
74 |
| CHAPTER 4 / REVELATION |
84 |
| 15. A General Description of Revelation |
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| 16. Revelation of the Modes of Thinking and Knowing |
90 |
| 17. Revelation and Moods |
96 |
| 18. A Further Scrutiny of Revelation |
100 |
| CHAPTER 5 / BEING AND GOD |
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| 19. The Content of Revelation |
104 |
| 20. The Meaning of Being |
107 |
| 21. God and Being |
115 |
| CHAPTER 6 / THE LANGUAGE OF THEOLOGY |
123 |
| 22. Theology, Language, and Logic |
123 |
| 23. Language ang the Theological Situation |
126 |
| 24. The Modes of Theological Discourse |
130 |
| 25. The Question os Truth |
145 |
| CHAPTER 7 / RELIGION AND RELIGIONS |
149 |
| 26. Some Characteristics of Religion |
149 |
| 27. Religion and its Critics |
153 |
| 28. Types of Religion |
161 |
| 29. Commitment and Openness in Religion |
170 |
| PART TWO SYMBOLIC THEOLOGY |
175 |
| CHAPTER 8 / THE TASKS OF SYMBOLIC THEOLOGY |
177 |
| 30. The Matter of Symbolic Theology |
177 |
| 31. The Method of Symbolic Theology |
182 |
| 32. The Order of Symbolic Theology |
186 |
| CHAPTER 9 / THE TRIUNE GOD |
190 |
| 33. The Traditional Trinitarian Doctrine |
190 |
| 34. Being as Unity and trinity |
195 |
| 35. The Attributes of God |
202 |
| CHAPTER 10 / CREATION AND CREATURELY BEINGS |
211 |
| 36. An Approach to the Doctrine of creation |
211 |
| 37. Models of Creation |
217 |
| 38. Nature |
222 |
| 39. Man |
226 |
| 40. The Holy Angels |
233 |
| 41. Demons or Evils Spirits |
237 |
| CHAPTER 11 / GOD, THE WORLD, AND EVIL |
239 |
| 42. Providence |
239 |
| 43. Miracles |
247 |
| 45. Sin |
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| CHAPTER 12 / THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST |
268 |
| 46. Reconciliation and Historical Revelation |
268 |
| 47. The Historical Jesus |
273 |
| 48. The Christ of Faith in the Gospels |
279 |
| 49. Lord anf Word |
290 |
| 50. True God and True Man |
294 |
| 51. Christ as the Focus of Being |
300 |
| 52. The definitivenes of Jesus Christ |
303 |
| 53. Christology and Paradox |
306 |
| CHAPTER 13 / THE WORK OF CHRIST |
311 |
| 54. Preliminary Remarks on the Work of Christ |
311 |
| 55. The Calssic View of Atonement |
318 |
| 56. The Atonement as Turning-point |
321 |
| 57. The Atonement and Its Application |
324 |
| CHAPTER 14 / THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SALVATION |
328 |
| 58. The Person of the Holy Spirit |
328 |
| 59. The Procession of the Holy Spirit |
330 |
| 60. The Work of the Holy Spirit |
332 |
| 61. Entry into the Christian Life |
337 |
| 62. Growth in the Christian Life |
343 |
| CHAPTER 15 / THE LAST THINGS |
351 |
| 63. The Eschatological Perpective |
351 |
| 64. Cosmic and Individual Destinies |
357 |
| 65. The Principal Eschatological Ideas Interpreted |
362 |
| PART THREE APPLIED THEOLOGY |
372 |
| CHAPTER 16 / THE TASKS OF APPLIED THEOLOGY |
373 |
| 66. Faith and Embodied Existence |
373 |
| 67. Criteria for Applied Theology |
378 |
| 68. Themes of an Applied Theology |
382 |
| CHAPTER 17 / THE CHURCH |
386 |
| 69. Preliminary Remarks on the Church |
386 |
| 70. The Blessed Virgin Mary |
392 |
| 71. The Saints |
399 |
| 72. The Notes of the Church and their Embodiment |
401 |
| 73. The Papacy |
413 |
| 74. The Authority of the Church |
416 |
| CHAPTER 18 / MINISTRY AND MISSION |
420 |
| 75. The general Ministry of the People of God |
420 |
| 76. The Special Ministries: Diaconate, Presbyterate, Episcopate |
423 |
| 77. Ministerial Collegiality |
440 |
| 78. The Mission of the Church |
441 |
| CHAPTER 19 / THE WORD AND SACRAMENTS |
447 |
| 79. Re-presenting Christ |
447 |
| 80. The World |
454 |
| 81. Baptism and Confirmation |
458 |
| 82.The Holy Eucharist |
469 |
| 83. Other Sacraments |
481 |
| CHAPTER 20 / WORSHIP AND PRAYER |
487 |
| 84. Wworship and Existence |
487 |
| 85. Prayer |
493 |
| 86. Varieties of Spirituality |
497 |
| 87. The Shape of Christian Worship |
499 |
| CHAPTER 21 / CHRISTIANITY IN THE WORLD |
503 |
| 88. Christianity and Ethics |
503 |
| 89. The Transfiguration of the Wworlf |
512 |
| 90. Law and Gospel |
520 |
| Index |
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