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Niebuhr, Richard R.

Resurrection and historical reason : a study of theological method / Richard R. Niebuhr. - 184 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Chapter I THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE MODERN PROTESTANT
1 The conflict between resurrection and ideas of history --
II The idea of historical causality in the Midnineteenth and early --
III The resurrection tradition and "the Jesus of history" --
IV The metaphysical interpretation of history and the resurrection --
V Some recent suggestion for a historical method --
VI The place of the apostolic witness in our faith --

Chapter II RESURRECTION AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD --
I The possibility of an independent theological method --
II The community against nature --
III The "Pathos for reality" --
IV The solitary Exister --
V The remembering church --

Chapter III THE POSSIBILITY OF A HISTORICAL REASON --
I The Eclipse of the historical --
II Heilsgeschichte: the idea of a non-historical history --
II The concept of historical reason --
IV The problem of nature --

Chapter IV THE CONFLICT OF HISTORY AND NATURE --
I Ideas of nature in modern theology --
II The naturalization of history --
III The historicizing of nature --

The power of the past --
I The church in Christendom --
II The power of the past --
III The sources of historical interpretation --

Chapter VI HISTORY, RESSURECTION AND LAW --
I History and law --
II Resurrection and history --

Index

LCCN: Acc#23066

Subjects--Topical Terms:
JESUS CHRIST--RESURRECTION

LC Class. No.: BT 480 / N551 1957