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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION--What is Theology--Formative Factors in Theology--The Development of Doctrine--Theology n Relation to Other Disciplines--Theological Method--The Divisions of Theology--PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY--CHAPTER 2. THE TASKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY--Philosophical Theology and Natural Theology--Philosophical Criticisms of Natural Theology--Principles of a Philosophical Theology or New Style Natural Theology--CHAPTER 3. HUMAN EXISTENCE--Human Existence and its Polarities--The individual and Society--The Disorder of existence--Selfhood and Faith--CHAPTER 4. REVELATION--A General Description of Revelation--Revelation and the Modes of Thinking and Knowing--Revelation and moods--A Further Scrutiny of Revelation--CHAPTER 5. BEING AND GOD--The Content of Revelation--The meaning of Being--God and Being--CHAPTER 6. THE LANGUAGE OF THEOLOGY--Theology, Language, and Logic--Language and the Theological Situation--The Modes of Theological Discourse--The Question of Truth--CHAPTER 7. RELIGION AND RELIGIONS-- Some Characteristics of Religion--Religion and its Critics--Types of Religion--Commitment and Openness in Religion--PART TWO : SYMBOLIC THEOLOGY--CHAPTER 8. THE TASKS OF SYMBOLIC THEOLOGY--30. The Matter of Symbolic Theology--The Method of Symbolic Theology--The Order of Symbolic Theology--CHAPTER 9. THE TRIUNE GOD--The Traditional Trinitarian Doctrine--Being as Unity and Trinity--The Attributes of God--CHAPTER 10. CREATION AND CREATURELY BEINGS--An Approach tot he Doctrine of Creation--Models of Creation--Nature--Man--The Holy Angels--Demons or Evil Spirits--CHAPTER 11. GOD, THE WORLD, AND EVIL--Providence--Miracles--Natural Evil--Sin--CHAPTER 12. THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST--Reconciliation and Historical Revelation--The Historical Jesus--The Christ of Faith in the Gospels--Lord and Word--True God and True man--Christ as the Focus of Being--The Definitiveness of Jesus Christ--Christology and Paradox--CHAPTER 13. THE WORK OF CHRIST--Preliminary Remarks on the work of Christ--The Classic View of Atonement--The Atonement as Turning-point--The Atonement and its Application---CHAPTER 14. THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SALVATION--The Person of the Holy Spirit--The Procession of the Holy Spirit--The Work of the Holy Spirit--Entry into the Christian Life--Growth in the Christian life--CHAPTER 15. THE LAST THINGS--The Eschatological Perspective--Cosmic and Individual Destines--The Principal Eschatological ideas interpreted--PART THREE: APPLIED THEOLOGY--CHAPTER 16.THE TASK OF APPLIED THEOLOGY--Faith and Embodied Existence--Criteria for Applied Theology--Themes of an Applied Theology--CHAPTER 17. THE CHURCH--Preliminary Remarks on the Church--The Blessed Virgin Mary--The Saints--The Notes of the Church and their Embodiment--The Papacy--The Authority of the Church--CHAPTER 18. MINISTRY AND MISSION--The General Ministry of the People of God--The Special Ministries: Diaconate, Presbyterate, Episcopate--Ministerial Collegiality--The Mission of the Church--CHAPTER 19. THE WORD AND SACRAMENTS--Re-presenting Christ--The Word--Baptism and Confirmation--The Holy Eucharist--Other Sacraments--CHAPTER 20. WORSHIP AND PRAYER--Worship and Existence--Prayer--Varieties of Spirituality--The Shape of Christian Worship--CHAPER 21. CHRISTIANITY IN THE WORLD--Christianity and Ethics--The Transfiguration of the World--Law and Gospel