Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
In face of mystery : a constructive theology
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Gordon D. Kaufman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993
- Physical Details
-
- xv, 509 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674445758, 0674445759
- OCLC
- ocm25509120
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-495) and indexes.
- Pt. I. Introduction: Theology as Construction. 1. The Question of God. 2. Theology: One-Dimensional, Two-Dimensional, or Holistic? 3. Theology as a Human Imaginative Task. 4. Theological Construction and Faith. 5. Mystery, Theology, and Conversation. 6. The Christian World-Picture (I): The Monotheistic Categorial Scheme. 7. The Christian World-Picture (II): The Category of Christ -- Pt. II. Constructing a Concept of the Human. 8. Historicity and Biology. 9. Humanity in the World. 10. Toward a Normative Concept of the Human. 11. Agency and Self-Reflexiveness as Sociohistorically Constituted. 12. Subjectivity, Experience, and Freedom. 13. The Interpenetration of Action with Reflection. 14. An Ecological Ethic. 15. The Corruption of Historicity: Freedom and Evil. 16. Historicity and Religion -- Pt. III. Constructing a Concept of the Context of Human Existence: The World. 17. Small Steps of Faith. 18. Cosmic Visions and Human Meaning. 19. Serendipitous Creativity. 20. Directional Movements in a Serendipitous Universe -- Pt. IV. Constructing a Concept of an Ultimate Point of Reference: God. 21. Functions of the Symbol "God" 22. Reconstructing the Concept of God. 23. Faith in God (I). 24. Sin and Evil. 25. A Wider Christology. 26. Christ as Paradigm for God and for Humanity. 27. A Trinitarian God -- Pt. V. Faith and Life in Today's World. 28. Theocentric Faith and the Churches. 29. Faith in God (II): Christian Theocentrism