Contents
Introduction -- xi
I. Kant's Four Steps in Theology -- 1
The First Step -- 2
The Second Step -- 3
The Third Step -- 6
The Fourth -- 11
Step A Fifth Step? -- 13
Some Isolated Last Steps -- 15
II. Fichte at the Crossroads -- 19
Fiom Natural Determinism to Ego-Pathos -- 20
The Atheism Controversy -- 23
The Way Towards the Blessed Life -- 26
Panentheism as the End of the Road -- 28
III. Schleiermacher's Direction -- 30
Between Kant's Postulate and Fichte's Ego -- 30
As Fellow Member and Stranger in the Romantic Circle -- 32
The First Edition of The Christian Faith -- 39
Criticism. Defense, and Revision -- 41
Schleiermacher's Impact -- 46
Schleiermacher and Barth -- 48
IV. From Hegel to the Hegelian Left -- 50
Hegel as Theologian -- 50
The Opponents: Hegel and Schleiermacher -- 54
The Revolt of Concrete Reality -- 57
The Shift to Atheism -- 58
V. The Aftereffects of Idealism in Theology -- 61
Confessional-ism and Liberalism -- 61
The Theology of Mediation -- 63
The Two Directions: Rothe and Domer -- 66
Sudden Demise -- 67
Ritschl: Discontinuity and Continuity -- 69
VI. Kierkegaard; The Individual -- 71
Revelation Versus Hegelian Philosophy -- 72
Subjectivity Against Confessional ism and Mediation -- 75
Anthmpocentricity or Pneumatology? -- 77
Attempt at Appraisal -- 79
VII. The Anglican Pendulum -- 82
The Special Character of British Theology -- 82
Coleridge -- 84
Maurice -- 87
Newman -- 88
The Modernism of Essays and Reviews -- 89
The Incarnation Theology of Lux Mundi -- 91
The Pendulum Swings Back to Empiricism -- 94
VIII. Coming up from Behind in the Netherlands -- 97
Modernism as Idealism and Empiricism: J. H. Scholten and C. W. Opzoomer -- 98
The Pinnacle as Turning Point: Allard Pierson and Sytze Hoekstra -- 103
"Truth Is Ethical"—The Controlling Idea of Mediation: D. Chantepie de la Saussaye and J. H, Canning -- 105
The Neo-Confessional Alternative: A. Kuyper and IT Bavinck -- 108
Bridge Construction Thwarted -- 111
The Brief Triumph of Neo-Confessionalism -- 112
IX, Ritschl: His Design arid Its Limitations -- 115
The Mechanism of Nature and Human Freedom -- 115
justification and Rcconcilmtms -- 117
Ritschl, Luther, Kant -- 118
The Concept "Value Judgment" -- 121
Our Dominion Over the World and: God's Providence 124 Ritsch! from Two Angles of Illumination -- 127
Attacks on the Ritsehlian Synthesis -- 128
X. Conservative Theology: Martin Kahler -- 131
Varieties of Conservative Theology' -- 131
Kahler Between Ritschl and Biblicism -- 133
Die Wissenschaft dcr CJiristlichen Lehre -- 134
The Center "The Hlstorical-Suprahistorical Christ" -- 137
Kahler in His Own lime -- 142
XL Alternatives: Herrmann and Troeltsch -- 143
Herrmann and Ritschl: Agreement and Difference -- 143
The Secularized World and "The Inner Life of Jesus" -- 146
The Main Works: Ethik and Dcr Verkehr des Christen mit Gott -- 147
Troeltsch: Confrontation with Herrmann -- 150
Herrmann: Confrontation with Troeltsch -- 154
Exhaustion on Both Sides; Troeltsch Turns Away from History -- 156
Convergence and Contrast -- 159
XII. The Split in the Herrmann School, I: Bultmann and the Neo-Bultmannians -- 163
Bultmann as Disciple of Herrmann -- 163
Bultmann and Barth -- 165
Bultmann and Heidegger -- 168
Again: Bultmann and Herrmann -- 171
Bultmann and the Neo-Bultmannians -- 172
The Background and Development of the Straggle -- 175
XIII. The Split in the Herrmann School, II: Karl Barth -- 179
The Faithful Pupil -- 179
The Detour of the First Edition of Rdmerbrief -- 185
Groping and Advancing -- 189
Departure from Herrmann? -- 198
Departure from Schleiermacher? -- 201
The Discovery of Direction -- 204
XIV. The Controversy between Barthians and Post-Barthians -- 208
The Necessity and Reality of the Post-Barthlan Epoch -- 208
The Discussion between Kuitert and the Barthians -- 212
The Import of "The Unabrogable Subjectivity of God in His Revelation" in Barth -- 213
Kuitert's Alternative to Barth's Theory of Revelation -- 219
The Confrontation between Kuitert and the Barthians -- 223
Appraisal of the Discussion -- 226
XV. Immanent Transcendentality: The Catholic Bridge -- 229
Catholic Theology in the Modem Age -- 229
Maurice Blondel -- 231
Henri de Lubac -- 236
Karl Rahner -- 241
Theological Validity -- 252
XVI. North America: From Social Gospel to Neo-Orthodoxy -- 256
The Three Levels of American Christianity -- 256
From the Previous History: Edwards and Bushnell -- 258
The Rise of the Social Gospel Movement -- 260
Walter Rauschenbusch and His Theology -- 261
Decline and Transition -- 268
H. Richard Niebuhr -- 270
Reinhold Niebuhr -- 274
The End of Neo-Orthodoxy -- 284
XVII. Paul Tillich: The Bridge of Correlation -- 287
Tillich's Theological Career -- 287
The Methodological Correlation of Question and Answer -- 290
The Ontological Background -- 293
Questions and Reservations -- 294
XVIII. Backward Glances and Conclusions -- 299
What Really Happened? -- 299
Was It Legitimate? -- 301
Did It Mean Anything? -- 308
Now What? -- 310
Index -- 313

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