Belief in God in Our Time

by Farrelly, John; Farrelly, M. John

• ISBN13: 9780814657065
• ISBN10: 0814657060
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-01
• Publisher: Michael Glazier

Summary

Central issues of contemporary theology are discussed in this volume.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 5
The Problematic of Mediating Faith in our Time	p. 15
A Sketch of Disbelief and Its Roots in Our Time	p. 16
The Task of Foundational Theology	p. 26
Models for Theological Mediation of Christian Belief in God	p. 30
Dialogical versus Dialectical Models	p. 31
Vatican II and Mediation of Belief in God	p. 44
History and Process: Theory and Practice	p. 56
Scripture and Our Belief in God	p. 73
The Old Testament	p. 84
The New Testament	p. 99
Soundings in Christian History on the Doctrine of Belief in God	p. 114
The Patristic Age	p. 115
The High Middle Ages Through the Reformation	p. 127
From the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century	p. 140
Conversion and Human Transcendence	p. 165
Christian Conversion in the Twentieth Century	p. 166
Personal Transcendence	p. 179
Social Life and Transcendence	p. 205
Grounds for Belief in the Existence of God	p. 215
Critical Grounding of Faith: An Epistemological Question	p. 216
Experience of Conscience as Testimony to God's Existence	p. 234
Intimations of God Mediated by the Physical World	p. 243
God as Transcendent Personal Being	p. 260
God as Transcendent Personal Being	p. 261
Some Buddhist and Christian Reflections on the Ultimate	p. 277
God's Relation to the World and History	p. 289
God's Immanence in the World: Symbol and Concept	p. 290
God's Relation to Change in History	p. 299
The Mystery of Evil	p. 321
Faith in God, Religion, and Religious Language	p. 332
Faith and Religion as Necessary for Human Beings in Our Time	p. 332
Religious and Theological Language	p. 354
Index of Principal Authors	p. 373
Index of Subjects	p. 376
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