Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity

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Seabury Press, 1978 - Religion - 470 pages
"A Crossroad book." Translation of Grundkurs des Glaubens.

Contents

Preliminary Remarks
1
Preliminary Remarks on Methodology
3
Some Basic Epistemological Problems
14
The Hearer of the Message
24
Man as Transcendent Being
31
The Question of Personal Existence as a Question
39
The Possibility of a Decision against God
97
Original Sin
106
Christ
203
God Became Man?
212
On the Theological Understanding of the History
228
b Observations from Hermeneutics and Fundamental Theology
241
The Theology of the Death and the Resurrection
264
Classical Christology and Soteriology
285
Christianity as Church
322
On the Churchs Teaching Office
378

MAN AS THE EVENT OF GODS FREE AND FORGIVING
116
The Offer of SelfCommunication as Supernatural
126
Towards an Understanding of the Doctrine of
133
The Historical Mediation of Transcendentality
140
On the Relationship between the History of Universal
153
On the Structure of the Actual History of Revelation
162
Jesus Christ
176
Christology within an Evolutionary View of the World
178
The Christian in the Life of the Church
389
Remarks on Christian Life
402
The Sacramental Life
411
Eschatology
431
Brief Creedal Statements
448
Detailed Table of Contents
467
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