Systematic Theology

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
§ 1 Theology......Page 16
§ 2 The Truth of Dogma......Page 23
§ 3 Dogmatics as Systematic Theology......Page 32
§ 4 The Development and Problem of So-called Prolegomena to Dogmatics......Page 41
§ 5 The Truth of Christian Doctrine as the Theme of Systematic Theology......Page 63
§ 1 The Word "God"......Page 78
§ 2 Natural Knowledge of God and Natural Theology......Page 88
§ 3 The Proofs of God and Philosophical Criticism of Natural Theology......Page 97
§ 4 Theological Criticism of Natural Theology......Page 110
§ 5 The "Natural" Knowledge of God......Page 122
§ 1 The Concept of Religion and Its Function in Theology......Page 134
a. Religion and the Knowledge of God......Page 135
b. The Concept of Religion, the Plurality of Religions, and the "Absoluteness" of Christianity......Page 144
§ 2 The Anthropological and Theological Nature of Religion......Page 151
§ 3 The Question of the Truth of Religion and the History of Religion......Page 166
§ 4 The Religious Relation......Page 187
§ 1 The Theological Function of the Concept of Revelation......Page 204
§ 2 The Multiplicity of Biblical Ideas of Revelation......Page 213
§ 3 The Function of the Concept of Revelation in the History of Theology......Page 229
§ 4 Revelation as History and as Word of God......Page 245
§ 1 The God of Jesus and the Beginnings of the Doctrine of the Trinity......Page 274
§ 2 The Place of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Dogmatic Structure and the Problem of Finding a Basis for Trinitarian Statements......Page 295
a. The Revelation of God in Jesus Christ as the Starting Point, and the Traditional Terminology of the Doctrine of the Trinity......Page 315
b. The Reciprocal Self-Distinction of Father, Son, and Spirit as the Concrete Form of Trinitarian Relations......Page 323
c. Three Persons but Only One God......Page 334
§ 4 The World as the History of God and the Unity of the Divine Essence......Page 342
§ 1 The Majesty of God and the Task of Rational Discussion of Talk about God......Page 352
§ 2 The Distinction between God's Essence and Existence......Page 362
§ 3 God's Essence and Attributes and the Link between Them in Action......Page 374
§ 4 God's Spirituality, Knowledge, and Will......Page 385
§ 5 The Concept of Divine Action and the Structure of the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes......Page 399
a. The Infinity and Holiness of God......Page 412
b. The Eternity of God......Page 416
c. The Omnipresence and Omnipotence of God......Page 425
a. Love and Trinity......Page 437
b. Attributes of the Divine Love......Page 447
c. The Unity of God......Page 457
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W......Page 472
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K......Page 477
O......Page 478
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Z......Page 481
Scripture References......Page 482