Systematic Theology

by Pannenberg, Wolfhart

• ISBN13: 9780802837080
• ISBN10: 0802837085
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary

The publication of Volume 3 of German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology completes the English edition of a work that will surely come to stand as one of the lasting theological statements of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xi	(2)
Foreword	xiii
CHAPTER 12 The Outpouring of the Spirit, the Kingdom of God, and the Church	1	(96)
1. The Consummating of God's Plan of Salvation by the Spirit	1	(26)
a. The Special Nature of the Soteriological Work of the Spirit Relative to Creation	1	(6)
b. The Spirit as Gift and the Glorifying of Creation	7	(5)
c. The Outpouring of the Spirit and the Church	12	(9)
Excursus: The Place of Ecclesiology in the Structure of Dogmatics	21	(6)
2. The Kingdom of God, the Church, and Society	27	(31)
a. The Church and the Kingdom of God	27	(11)
b. The Church as the Mystery of Salvation in Christ	38	(11)
c. The Church and the Political Order in the Light of God's Lordship	49	(9)
3. The Law and the Gospel	58	(39)
a. Paul's Understanding of the Law in Terms of Salvation History	61	(9)
b. The Gospel as New Law?	70	(9)
c. The Law as Demand and the Pronouncement of the Gospel	79	(9)
d. The Christian's Freedom from the Law and God's Righteous Will	88	(9)
CHAPTER 13 The Messianic Community and Individuals	97	(338)
I. THE FELLOWSHIP OF INDIVIDUALS WITH JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHURCH AS THE FELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS	97	(38)
1. The Church as the Fellowship of Believers and Body of Christ	99	(11)
2. The Mediating of the Fellowship of Believers by the Common Confession	110	(12)
3. The Immediacy of Individuals to Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit and the Communicating of the Gospel by the Church	122	(13)
II. THE BASIC SAVING WORKS OF THE SPIRIT IN INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIANS	135	(102)
1. Faith	136	(37)
a. Faith as Trust	139	(3)
b. Faith and Knowledge	142	(2)
c. Faith and Historical Knowledge	144	(11)
d. The Ground of Faith and Thoughts of Faith	155	(7)
e. Faith as Assurance of Salvation	162	(11)
2. Hope	173	(9)
3. Love	182	(29)
a. Love of God and Love of Neighbor	182	(14)
b. Love and Grace	196	(6)
c. Christian Prayer	202	(9)
4. Adoption as God's Children and Justification	211	(26)
III. THE SIGNIFICATORY FORM OF THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST'S SALVATION IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH	237	(133)
1. Baptism and the Christian Life	239	(44)
a. Baptism as the Constitution of Christian Identity	239	(6)
b. Baptism, Conversion, and Penitence	245	(12)
c. Baptism and Faith (Infant Baptism, Confirmation, and Anointing of the Sick)	257	(18)
d. The Institution of Baptism and Symbolism of the Rite	275	(8)
2. The Lord's Supper and Christian Worship	283	(53)
a. The Origin and Meaning of the Lord's Supper	283	(10)
b. The Words of Institution and Christ's Presence in the Lord's Supper	293	(12)
c. The Mediating of Christ's Presence in the Church's Eucharistic Liturgy	305	(20)
(1) Anamnesis and the Offering of Christ	305	(6)
(2) The Bodily Presence of the Risen Lord in the Lord's Supper	311	(4)
(3) The Offering and Presence of Christ	315	(5)
(4) Christ's Presence and the Holy Spirit	320	(5)
d. The Lord's Supper and the Church's Fellowship	325	(7)
e. The Lord's Supper and the Proclamation of the Gospel in the Church's Worship	332	(4)
3. The Ambivalence of the Word "Sacrament" and the Special Case of Marriage	336	(34)
a. The Traditional Term	336	(4)
b. Difficulties in Using and Justifying the Term	340	(5)
c. The One Mystery of Salvation and the Many Sacraments	345	(3)
d. The Sacraments as Signs	348	(7)
e. The Scope of the Sacraments	355	(3)
f. Marriage a Reminder of a Broader Sacramental Understanding	358	(6)
g. The Question of Criteria in the Use of the Term "Sacrament" (Summary)	364	(6)
IV. THE MINISTRY AS SIGN AND INSTRUMENT OF THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH	370	(61)
1. The Common Commission of Believers and the Office of Unity	372	(20)
2. Ordination and Apostolic Succession	392	(13)
a. Sacramentality and Ordination	393	(4)
b. The Effect of Ordination	397	(2)
c. Canonical Ordination a Sign of the Church's Unity	399	(6)
3. The Unity of the Church and Ministerial Hierarchy	405	(26)
a. The Essential Attributes of the Church	405	(10)
b. Different Levels of the Unity of the Church and Its Leadership	415	(5)
c. A Ministry to the Unity of Christianity as a Whole?	420	(11)
V. THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD	431	(4)
CHAPTER 14 Election and History	435	(92)
1. The Election of Individuals	439	(24)
a. The Classical Doctrine of Election	439	(8)
b. Election and Calling	447	(8)
c. The Election of Individuals and the Fellowship	455	(8)
2. The Church as the People of God	463	(20)
a. The Concept of the People of God in Ecclesiology	465	(5)
b. The Church and Israel	470	(8)
c. The People of God and the Official Church	478	(5)
3. The Election of the People of God and the Experience of History	483	(15)
a. The Thought of Election as a Religious Category for the Historical Constitution of the Cultural Order	484	(4)
b. Aspects of Historical Self-Understanding Related to the Thought of Election	488	(10)
4. The Task of Interpreting Theologically the History of the Church and Christianity in the Light of the Doctrine of Election	498	(24)
Excursus: Secular Belief in Election and Nationalism in the History of Christianity	518	(4)
5. The Goal of Election and God's Government of the World in the Process of History	522	(5)
CHAPTER 15 The Consummation of Creation in the Kingdom of God	527	(120)
1. The Theme of Eschatology	527	(28)
a. Eschatology and God's Lordship	527	(5)
b. The Way to Establish Eschatological Statements	532	(14)
c. The Relation between Individual and Universal Eschatology and the Work of the Spirit in the Consummation of Creation	546	(9)
2. Death and Resurrection	555	(25)
a. The Theology of Death	556	(7)
b. The Relation of the Hope of Resurrection to Other Forms of Belief in an Individual Future beyond Death	563	(10)
c. The Inner Problematic of the Idea of Resurrection	573	(7)
3. The Kingdom of God and the End of Time	580	(28)
a. The Kingdom of God as the Fulfillment of Human Society	580	(6)
b. The Kingdom of God as the End of History	586	(9)
c. The Kingdom of God as the Coming of Eternity into Time	595	(13)
4. Judgment and the Return of Christ	608	(22)
a. Judgment and Its Standard	610	(12)
Excursus: The Language of Eschatology	621	(1)
b. The Work of the Spirit in Judgment and Transfiguration	622	(4)
c. The Reality of the Returning Christ	626	(4)
5. The Justification of God by the Spirit	630	(17)
a. The Problem of Theodicy and Efforts to Solve It by Argument	632	(5)
b. The Overcoming of Wickedness and Evil by God Himself	637	(5)
c. The Revelation of the Love of God in the Consummation of Creation	642	(5)
INDEXES	647
1. Subjects	647	(44)
2. Names	691	(11)
3. Scripture References	702