Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom

Synopsis

In This Scholarly Work Paul Hinlicky Transcends The Impasse Between Dogmatic And Systematic Theology As He Presents An Original, Comprehensive System Of Theology Especially Apropos To The Post-christendom North American Context. Deploying An Unusual Spirit-son-father Trinitarian Scheme, Hinlicky Carefully Develops His System Of Theology Through Expansive, Wide-ranging Argumentation. He Engages With Other Theologians Throughout The Book And Concludes Each Major Section By Discussing An Alternate Perspective On The Subject. (publisher). Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. One Prolegomena -- 1. The Knowledge Of God -- The Discipline Of Theology As Critical Dogmatics -- A Note On The Historicity Of The Resurrection Of Jesus -- The Theology Of The Word -- The Interpretation Of Experience -- How Critical Dogmatics Is Critical And Dogmatic -- The Cognitive Claim -- Contextual Considerations -- After Christendom -- The Continuity Thesis -- Neither Univocity Nor Analogy -- A Note On The Triadic Structure Of Theological Knowledge -- A Note On Gendered Language -- Excursus: Perpetua And The Fatherhood Of God -- 2. Preliminary Clarifications -- Odd Questions -- I -- Excursus: Augustine, Luther, And The Critique Of The Sovereign Self -- Odd Questions -- Ii -- Is God Possible? -- Is Christ Necessary? -- Does Faith Justify? -- Excursus: On The Three Lutheranisms -- Are The Scriptures Holy? Pt. Two Pneumatology -- 3. The Theological Subject -- The Natural Man (1 Cor. 2:14) -- John 20: Hearing Is Believing Is Seeing In A New Way -- Sinfulness -- Early Christian Baptism -- A Note On Apocalyptic Demonology -- Baptism As Rebirth Into The Ecclesia -- I -- Excursus: The Jeremias -- Aland Debate On Infant Baptism -- Baptism As Rebirth Into The Ecclesia -- Ii -- Luther's Baptizatus Sum! -- Menno Simons On The New Birth -- Karl Barth's Second Nein! -- Concepts Of Theological Subjectivity -- On The Plane Of Immanence -- 4. Creator Spiritus -- Toward The Ecumenical Doctrine Of Baptism -- The Way To Ecumenical Convergence On The Spirit -- Tritheism? -- The Paraclete Of John 17 -- The Spirit As Unifier Of The Sign And The Thing Signified -- Overcoming The Western Tendency Towards Modalism -- Sanctification: Holy Secularity In Fulfillment Of Creation -- The Spirit's Mission To The Nations -- The Ministry Of The Church -- I Excursus: The Ordination Of Women -- The Ministry Of The Church -- Ii -- An Alternative: Ephraim Radner's Brutal Unity -- A Note On The Eschaton Of Judgment -- Pt. Three Christology -- 5. The Objectivity Of Faith -- Historicizing The Eschatological? -- The Theotokos And Her Child -- Excursus: On Jewish Perplexity As A Principle Internal To Christology -- A Note On The Modern Marian Dogmas -- Modalist Confusions In Christology -- Realignment: The Christological Division Of The Divisions -- New Testament Objectifications -- Stuhlmacher Against Bultmann On Pauline Christology -- Marcus's Commentary On Mark -- Schnelle's John 6 -- The Truth Of The Incarnation -- Eucharistic Controversies Regarding The Objectivity Of Christ's Presence For Faith -- 6. Christology -- Toward The Ecumenical Doctrine Of The Eucharistic Meal -- The Unity Of Christ's Person -- Excursus: The Deity Has Withdrawn -- The Christological Way Between Schleiermacher And Barth Salvation In Christ -- The Prophet Of The Reign Of God -- The Intercession Of Christ -- An Alternative: Marilyn Mccord Adams's Christ And The Defeat Of Horrors -- A Note On The Parousia Of Christ -- Pt. Four Patrology -- 7. The Audience Of Theology -- Conscience And Theology -- God After God -- The Faith Of Jesus In The Heavenly Father -- Our Father, Who Art In Heaven, Hallowed Be Thy Name... -- Thy Kingdom Come! Thy Will Be Done On Earth As In Heaven... -- A Note On The Faith Of The Historical Jesus Formulated In The Lord's Prayer -- Thy Kingdom Come...! -- Continued -- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread; And Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us... -- And Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil. For Thine Is The Kingdom, The Power And The Glory, Forever. Amen. -- God Surpassing God -- Missio Dei -- A Note On Islam As The Judgment Of God On Christendom 8. The Almighty Father -- Toward The Ecumenical Doctrine Of Confession -- I -- A Note On Pastoral And Liturgical Theology -- Toward The Ecumenical Doctrine Of Confession -- Ii -- A Note On Creation Faith And The Scientific Understanding Of Nature -- The Almighty Agent Of Eschatological Creation -- Genesis As Promise -- God's Time, Created Time, And The Divine Decree -- Problems Of Evil -- Structures For Justice And Love -- Whether God Exists... -- Divine Being -- Doxological Analytic Of The Holy Existence -- An Alternative: Brueggemann's Conflicted Yahweh -- The Theodicy Of Faith -- The Circle Spirals -- Conclusion: Doxology -- The Eternal Trinity And The Life Eternal -- God Is The Eschaton Of Judgment -- The Co-equal Trinity In Anticipation Of Glory -- Eternal Life. Paul R. Hinlicky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.