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| Titre : | The Evangelical Faith. Volume 1 : Prolegomena: The Relation of Theology to Modern Thought-Forms |
| Auteurs : | Helmut Thielicke, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Grand Rapids [USA] : William B. Eerdmans, 1974 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8028-2342-7 |
| Format : | 420 p. |
| Note générale : | Titre original: Der Evangelische Glaube (1968) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Helmut Thielicke was first known in this country — and is perhaps still best known — as a preacher whose sermons and essays have been widely published and favorably received; more recently he has gained recognition as the author of Theological Ethics. Now Thielicke has undertaken a comprehensive, three-volume dogmatics that should serve to secure his reputation among late twentieth-century theologians.
The Evangelical Faith, product of a lifetime of scholarship, constitutes a full- scale dogmatics of the Christian faith. In this inaugural volume, Thielicke surveys the current state of theology and responds to significant philosophical challenges confronting Christianity, setting the stage for the constructive doctrinal studies to follow: the doctrine of God and of Christ (Volume 2), and the doctrines of the Holy Spirit, the church, and eschatology (Volume 3). Avoiding conservative/liberal labels — terms he finds ambiguous and unhelpful — Thielicke in Volume 1 divides contemporary theological thought into what he calls “Theology A” and “Theology B.” The first of these is essentially Cartesian, reflecting an emphasis on the “I" who is to receive the message of the gospel. By contrast, “Theology B” focuses on the message itself, refusing to allow the “I” to limit its nature or its effectiveness. Though Thielicke considers that his own theology fits best into the latter category, he acknowledges that both approaches attempt conscientiously to address the Christian message to the contemporary world; and it is his concern to establish a clear agenda for these efforts. It is a large task the author sets for himself. But for those who may suggest that the undertaking of a comprehensive dogmatics in our days is immodestly presumptuous, Thielicke has an answer. “When problems affect the substance of Christian faith and touch on all its dimensions, then it is challenged as a whole and it must react accordingly. ... I must make the venture of recapturing the total picture, or at least of recalling it, of giving a reminder of its existence. I do not want to miss the forest for the trees.” |
| Note de contenu : |
- Editor’s Preface - Preface - Abbreviations PART ONE: THE STATE OF THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION - Orientation of Our Theological Thinking - A. The Two Basic Types of Contemporary Theology (Modern and Conservative) * I. Address to the Contemporary World: 1. Address as Part of the Historicity of the Message 2. Distinction between Actualization and Accommodation 3. Growth in Theological Knowledge through Re-address * II. Terminological Inadequacy of the Terms Modern and Conservative and Their Replacement with Cartesian and Non- Cartesian: 1. General History of the Term Modern 2. Theological Concept of Modern 3. Theological Concept of Conservative - B. Confrontation of the Basic Types under the Terms Cartesian (Theology A) and Non-Cartesian (Theology B) * III. Sketch of Cartesian Theology (Theology A) and Its Essential Problems: 1. Concentration on the Act of Understanding and Appropriation 2. Historical Examples 3. Dawn of the New Age: Emancipation of Adult Man 4. Crucial Point in Theology A: Domination of Existential Analysis 5. Summary and Prospect 6. Debate with a Representative * IV. Key Hermeneutical Question in Theology A. Problem of the Form and Content of Mythical Statements in Theology: 1. Linguistic and Material Confusion regarding the Term Myth 2. Understandings of Myth * V. The Crux: Kerygmatic and Disarmed Myth: 1 Time and World-Order as Mythical Forces 2 Overcoming of Mythical Time by Historical Time 3. Survey of Defeated Myth: The Lord, Gods, and Nothingness 4. Employment of Disarmed Myth in the Language of the Bible 5. Summary and Epilogue * VI. Theology B: Counter-question and Question: 1 Problem of Conservative and Non-Cartesian Thought 2. Temporality of Truth (Re-presenting and Forgetting) * VII. Theological Starting-Point in the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit * VIII The Holy Spirit as He Who Creates Anew and Yet Also Links to the Old. The New Place of Self-Understanding: 1 Problem of Continuity 2. Philosophical Model: The Commandments of God and the Categorical Imperative 3. Biblical Model: The Parable of the Prodigal Son * IX. Death of the Old Cartesian Self: 1. Incorporation of the Self into the Salvation Event instead of the Reverse 2. Possibilities of the Salvation Event instead of Possi¬bilities of the Self 3. Identity of the Faithfulness of God instead of 4. Excursus on Theological Discussion and Debate with Herbert Braun as a Typical Representative of Cartesian Theology * X. New Creation by the Spirit: Anthropological Aspect. The Old and the New Self : 1. Survey of the Discussion 2. Letter and Spirit 3. Spirit and Identity 4. Flesh and Spirit * XI. New Creation by the Spirit: Hermeneutical Aspect. A Theological Epistemology: 1. Relation of Proclamation and Theology 2. Truth Intended in Proclamation and Theology. Discussion of the Concept of Truth * XII. Summary of the Relation between Cartesian Theology (A) and Non-Cartesian Theology (B) PART TWO: THEOLOGY IN SELF-GROUNDED SECULARITY - Situation and Task of Theology in the Generation of the Supposed Death of God * XIII. Theme and Questionability of the Slogan Death of God: 1. Link between Death of God Theology and Secularization 2. Overestimation of the Secular. Elimination of the History of Faith and Temptation * XIV. History of the Idea of the Death of God: 1. New Form of Atheism 2. Idea of the Death of God as Promethean Logic 3. Idea of the Death of God as Heuristic Premise 4. Idea of the Death of God as the Content of Waking Consciousness (a. Wetzel b. Jens Peter Jacobsen c. Nietzsche d. Excursus on Hegel) * XV. Theological Evaluation of the Idea of the Death of God. Basis of a Secular and Scientific Knowledge of the World (Science) and Mastery over It (Technology): 1. Kant’s Copernican Revolution according to Heinrich Heine 2. Kant and Anselm. Reorientation of the Modern View of the World 3. The Real End of Anselm’s Way. The Christological Background of This End 4. Prospects for a New Beginning. Revisions of the Question of Certainty (a. Theological Openness of Kant’s Philosophy as Seen in Wilhelm Herrmann b. Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard as Further Examples c. Decisive Theological Alternatives in the Post- Kantian Age) * XVI. Godless World and Worldless God. The Theological Problem of Secularization: 1. Conceptual Clarification 2. Understanding of the World as though There Were No God 3. Secularization as a Product of Christianity? * XVII. Consequences for a Christian Secularism: 1. Freedom from the World and for the World 2. Disengagement from and Orientation to the World in the Sermon on the Mount and the Decalog 3. Indifference and Engagement 4. Ultimate and Penultimate 5. Autonomy of Values 6. Openness and Distance in Relation to the World 7. Theological Conclusion: Christological Background of the God-World Relation * XVIII. Tasks of Christian Secularity. Outline of the Themes of Proclamation - Appendix: Further Discussion of the Concept of Secularity and the Penultimate Illustrated by the Question Whether the Ideal and Utopian Is Possible: 1. Problem of Hope 2. Man in the Light of the Ideal 3. Self-Jeopardizing of the Ideal 4. Jeopardizing of the Ideal by Me 5. Healing of Ideals 6. Love as Guiding Image 7. Purpose of Dreams 8. Greatness and Misery of the Ideal - Indexes: 1. Names 2. Subjects 3. Scripture References |
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