The Role Of Jusitifcation In Contemporary Theology

by Mattes, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780802828569
• ISBN10: 0802828566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Mark C. Mattes is professor of philosophy and religion at Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa.

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Klaus Schwarzwaller
Acknowledgments	xiv
Abbreviations	xvi
Introduction
The Question of the Doctrine of Justification's Role in Theology	3	(20)
The Purpose of This Study	8	(7)
Luther Our Contemporary	15	(2)
An Overview of This Study	17	(6)
Part One The Role of Justification in Theological Strategies of Accommodation
Justification in the Theology of the Speech Event	23	(33)
Eberhard Jungel
Theological Influences	30	(9)
The Ontology of the Justifying God	39	(8)
The Ontology of Justified Humanity	47	(3)
Jungel and Luther	50	(4)
Summary and Critical Assessment	54	(2)
Justification in the Theology of the Metaphysical One	56	(29)
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Law-Gospel Distinction as Epochal, Not Iterative	59	(4)
Justification by Faith as ``Ecstatic Fellowship''	63	(9)
Metaphysical Presuppositions	72	(5)
Strategies of Ecumenism	77	(3)
Pannenberg and Luther	80	(3)
Summary and Critical Assessment	83	(2)
Justification in the Theology of Liberation	85	(32)
Jurgen Moltmann
Justification within the Matrix of Hope	88	(10)
Human Praxis as the Clue That Makes Divine Agency Transparent	98	(5)
Justice without Liberation	103	(6)
Moltmann and Luther	109	(4)
Summary and Critical Assessment	113	(4)
Part Two The Role of Justification in Non-Accommodating Theological Strategies
Justification in the Theology of the Perfected Church	117	(28)
Robert Jenson
Trinity as Abbreviated Church; Church as Extended Trinity	121	(5)
Justification as Real-Ontic Bond	126	(6)
Baptizing God as the Route to Ecumenism	132	(4)
The Primary Mission of the Church	136	(2)
Jenson and Luther	138	(4)
Summary and Critical Assessment	142	(3)
Justification and the Theology of the Speech Act	145	(32)
Oswald Bayer
Hamann, Luther, and Hermeneutics	149	(5)
Metacritique and the Nature of Reason	154	(6)
Creation Theology and Human Pathos	160	(2)
Relation between the Locutionary and the Illocutionary	162	(5)
Bayer and Luther	167	(4)
Summary and Critical Assessment	171	(6)
Conclusion
Justification as the Discrimen of Theology	177	(14)
Relativizing the Relationship between First- and Second-Order Discourses	179	(1)
Theology's Eschatological Limit	180	(1)
The Positive Role of Theology	181	(1)
The Relevance of Justification and the Irrelevance of Relevance	182	(2)
The Task of the Church	184	(2)
Restoring Creation	186	(5)
Index of Names	191	(2)
Index of Subjects	193	(4)
Index of Scripture References	197