The hidden question of God / Helmut Thielicke; translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
Material type: TextGrand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, ©1977Description: 183 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0802816614
- BR 85 T347 1977
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Contents:
I. The Question of Religion
1. Escalation of Interest
2. Alienation
3. Identity
II. The Question of the Church
Question 1: What is your attitude to a democratizing of the church?
Question 2: Do you accept the need for a basic alteration in the church's structure?
Question 3: In what you have just said, are you not expressing reservations about many church reports ans studies?
Question 4: What do you think of pluralism in the church and the demand for open discussion?
Question 5: Do you think the day of the national church is over?
Question 6: Do you see some specific possibilities of urgent actions in this field?
III. The Question of Man
A. Marxist Man
1. Authentic and Inauthentic Man
a. The Place of the Anthropological Question
b. Man as the Chief Theme
c. Economic Man
d. The Concept of Alienation
2. The Break in Marxist Anthropology
a. The Idealistic Origin
b. Man as a Transitional Stage in Intellectual Processes
c. The Break With Hegel
d. The Extreme Counterposition
e. The Reversal to Marxism
3. Insight into Necessity as the Basis of Human Action
a. The Problem of Responsibility
b. The Rule of Necessity
c. The Dynamic Thrust of History
d. The Reason for the Reduction of Man
e. The Exclusion of the Personal Sphere
4. The Degradation of Man as a Mere Function
a. Marxist Criticism of Marxism
b. Communist Humanism
c. Utility as a Standard
d. Exclusion of Basic Anthropological Questions
e. Socialization as a Free Act
f. The Vague Picture of Man
g. The Great Miscalculation
h. Authentic Humanity
i. The Decisive Insight
B. Man and Society
1. The Worldless
2. The I-less World
3. World Change as Task of Christian Love
4. The Primacy of Structures over Man
5. The Result: A Utopian Thrust
6. Criticism of Utopias
7. The Primacy of Person over Structure
8. The Political Equivalent of the Christian Message
IV. The Question of Truth
1. Is the Question of Truth Foreign to the World?
2. The Different Forms of Truth
3. The Different Modes of Appropriation
4. The Special Nature of Theological Understanding
5. The Connection between the Object and Method of Knowledge
6. The Critical Significance of Theology
V. The Question of God
1. What Is Meant by the Word of God: The Modern Crisis in the Concept of God
2. Negative and Positive Aspects of the Concept of God
3. Results and Evaluation
4. The Personality of God and the Problem of the Word "Person" as a Theological Category
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