Systematic Theology, Volume 1

by Pannenberg, Wolfhart

• ISBN13: 9780802865038
• ISBN10: 0802865038
• Edition: Reprint
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• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Author Biography

Wolfhart Pannenberg is professor emeritus of systematic theology on the Protestant Faculty at the University of Munich. Besides the three-volume Systematic Theology, his many books include Basic Questions in Theology, Anthropology in Theological Perspective, and Theology and the Philosophy of Science.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. viii
Foreword	p. x
The Truth of Christian Doctrine as the Theme of Systematic Theology	p. 1
Theology	p. 1
The Truth of Dogma	p. 1
Dogmatics as Systematic Theology	p. 8
The Development and Problem of So-called Prolegomena to Dogmatics	p. 26
The Truth of Christian Doctrine as the Theme of Systematic Theology	p. 48
The Concept of God and the Question of Its Truth	p. 63
The Word "God"	p. 63
Natural Knowledge of God and Natural Theology	p. 73
The Proofs of God and Philosophical Criticism of Natural Theology	p. 82
Theological Criticism of Natural Theology	p. 95
The "Natural" Knowledge of God	p. 107
The Reality of God and the Gods in the Experience of the Religions	p. 119
The Concept of Religion and Its Function in Theology	p. 119
Religion and the Knowledge of God	p. 120
The Concept of Religion, the Plurality of Religions, and the "Absoluteness" of Christianity	p. 129
The Anthropological and Theological Nature of Religion	p. 136
The Question of the Truth of Religion and the History of Religion	p. 151
The Religious Relation	p. 172
The Revelation of God	p. 189
The Theological Function of the Concept of Revelation	p. 189
The Multiplicity of Biblical Ideas of Revelation	p. 198
The Function of the Concept of Revelation in the History of Theology	p. 214
Revelation as History and as Word of God	p. 230
The Trinitarian God	p. 259
The God of Jesus and the Beginnings of the Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 259
The Place of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Dogmatic Structure and the Problem of Finding a Basis for Trinitarian Statements	p. 280
Distinction and Unity of the Divine Persons	p. 300
The Revelation of God in Jesus Christ as the Starting Point, and the Traditional Terminology of the Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 300
The Reciprocal Self-Distinction of Father, Son, and Spirit as the Concrete Form of Trinitarian Relations	p. 308
Three Persons but Only One God	p. 519
The World as the History of God and the Unity of the Divine Essence	p. 327
The Unity and Attributes of the Divine Essence	p. 337
The Majesty of God and the Task of Rational Discussion of Talk about God	p. 337
The Distinction between God's Essence and Existence	p. 347
God's Essence and Attributes and the Link between Them in Action	p. 359
God's Spirituality, Knowledge, and Will	p. 370
The Concept of Divine Action and the Structure of the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes	p. 384
The Infinity of God: His Holiness, Eternity, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence	p. 397
The Infinity and Holiness of God	p. 397
The Eternity of God	p. 401
The Omnipresence and Omnipotence of God	p. 410
The Love of God	p. 422
Love and Trinity	p. 422
Attributes of the Divine Love	p. 432
The Unity of God	p. 442
Indexes
Subjects	p. 449
Names	p. 459
Scripture References	p. 467
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