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200			_aEVANGELICAL FAITH Volume II _eThe Doctrine of God and of Christ _fThielicke, Helmut _gEd. by Bromiley, Geoffrey W. _vVolume Two
210			_aGrand Rapids, Michigan _cWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company _d1977
101			_aeng
102			_aUS
215			_aHardcover. 477 pg.
327			_aContents
327			_aPART ONE: THE SOURCE OF REVELATION: GOD THE FATHER -- pg. 1
327			_aPreliminary Methodological Note -- pg. 3
327			_aA. Revelation as the Self-Disclosure of God -- pg. 5
327			_aI. The Problem of the Concept of Revelation -- pg. 5
327			_aII. Negative Delimitations of the Concept of Revelation -- pg. 14
327			_aIII. The Dialectical Relation between the Self-Disclosure of God and Reception by the Human Self. Revelation and Subjectivity, Word and Faith -- pg. 21
327			_aB. Revelation as a General Pointer to the Question of God. On the Relevance and Validity of Theos in Theology. What Does it Mean to Talk about God? -- pg. 61
327			_aIV. The Problem -- pg. 61
327			_aV. The Modern Crisis in the Concept of God -- pg. 65
327			_aVI. Negative and Positive Aspects of the Idea of God -- pg. 73
327			_aVII. The Personality of God -- pg. 102
327			_aVIII. A Polemical Conclusion: Transcendentalism in the Question of God -- pg. 116
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327			_aIX. The Trinity of God -- pg. 129
327			_aX. The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Defensive Formula: A Safeguard against Speculative Ideas of the Divine Unity and Singularity -- pg. 137
327			_aXI. The Aim and Mode of the Trinitarian Statement -- pg. 158
327			_aXII. Anthropological Perspectives of the Doctrine of the Trinity -- pg. 167
327			_aXIII. The Dogmatic Rank of the Doctrine of the Trinity -- pg. 170
327			_aXIV. The Word of God as Law and Gospel The Connection with the Problem -- pg. 184
327			_aXV. The Distinction between Law and Gospel in its Relevance for the Movement of Salvation History from the Old Testament to the New -- pg. 199
327			_aXVI. The Distinction between Law and Gospel in its Relevance for the New Being of the Christian -- pg. 234
327			_aXVII. The Law in its Social Dimension. The Problem of Coercion and Autonomy -- pg. 243
327			_aPART TWO: THE FORM OF REVELATION: GOD THE SON -- pg. 259
327			_aXVIII. Preamble: The Systematic Place and Method of Christology -- pg. 263
327			_aXIX. The Horizon of Christology: The Relation between Faith and History -- pg. 274
327			_a
327			_aXXI. The Basic Problem of Expression and the Unavoidability of Paradox -- pg. 307
327			_aXXII. The Question of the Person of Christ -- pg. 319
327			_aXXIII. The Approach to Christology through the Mighty Acts of God -- pg. 332
327			_aXXIV. The Systematic Principle of Christology: The Doctrine of the Offices -- pg. 342
327			_aXXV. The Offices of Christ in the Schema of Prophecy and Fulfilment -- pg. 358
327			_aXXVII. The Prophetic Office -- pg. 361
327			_aXXVII. The Priestly Office -- pg. 366
327			_aXXVIII. The Metaphors of the Atonement within the Priestly Office -- pg. 392
327			_aXXIX. Excursus on the Metaphors of the Atonement: The Virgin Birth and the Descent into Hell -- pg. 407
327			_aXXX. The Kingly Office -- pg. 421
327			_aXXXI. Postscript on Christology and the Witness of the Spirit -- pg. 453
327			_aIndexes -- pg. 457
330			_aIn this second volume of The Evangelical Faith, Helmut Thielicke takes up the first two articles of the Creed. He relates these to the general theme of revelation by seeing in the Father the origin of revelation and in the Son its form. Included in the treatmwnt of God the Father are valuable discussion of faith and its relation to word, history, and experience, of the place of God in modern thought, of the personhood of God, of the Trinity, and of the word as law and gospel. The approach to Christology is not through the two natures but through the three offices, so that the atonement and the resurrection can be treated as well as the traditional, if less important, christological themes of the virgin birth, the descent, and the ascention. The general approach enables the author to display once again a basic orthodoxy in lively and thoughtful interaction with contemporary theological discussion. When Thielicke describes his theology as evangelical, he obviously does not take the term in the narrower sense which it often bears in the English-speaking world. The duty of the theologian, as he sees it, is not simply to repeat or defend the formulations and interpretations of the past. At the same time Thielicke
606			_aTheology - Doctrinal
606			_aChristianity
686			_2udc _a230 / Thi / 1977 / V.2
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