Foundations of Christian faith : an introduction to the idea of Christianity /
Karl Rahner; translated by William V. Dych.
- xv, 470 p. ; 23 cm.
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. General preliminary reflections -- 2. Preliminary remarks on methodology -- 3. Some basic epistemological problems --
I: The hearer of the message -- 1. The interlocking of philosophy and theology -- 2. Man as person and subject -- 3. Man as transcendent being -- 4. Man as responsible and free -- 5. The question of personal existence as a question of salvation -- 6. Man as dependent --
II: Man in the presence of absolute mystery -- 1. Mediation on the word "God" -- 2. The knowledge of God -- 3. God as person -- 4. Man's relation to His transcendent ground: creatureliness -- 5. Finding God in the world --
III: Man as being threatened radically by guilt -- 1. The topic and its difficulties -- 2. Man's freedom and responsibility -- 3. The possibility of a decision against God -- 4. "Original sin" --
IV: Man as the event of God's free and forgiving - Self communication -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. What does the "self-communication of God" -- 3. The offer of of self-communication as "Supernatural existential" -- 4. Towards an understanding of the doctrine of the trinity --
V: The history of salvation and Revelation -- 1. Preliminary reflections on the problem -- 2. The historical mediation of transcendentality and transcendence -- 3. The history of salvation and Revelation as coextensive with the whole of world history -- 4. On the relationship between the history of universal, transcendental revelation and special, categorical Revelation -- 5. On the structure of the actual history of Revelation --
VI: Jesus Christ -- 1. Christology within an evolutionary view of the world -- 2. On the phenomenology of our relationship to Jesus Christ -- 3. Transcendental Christology -- 4. What does it mean to say: "God became man"? -- 5. On the theological understanding of the history of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth -- 6. The theology of the death and the resurrection of Jesus -- 7. The content, permanent validity and limits of classical Christology and soteriology -- 8. On the question of new approaches to Orthodox Christology -- 9. The personal relationship of a Christian to Jesus Christ -- 10. Jesus Christ in non-Christian religions --
VII: Christianity as church -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The church as founded by Jesus Christ -- 3. The church in the New Testament -- 4. Fundamentals of the ecclesial nature of Christianity -- 5. An indirect method for showing the legitimacy of the Catholic church as the church of Christ -- 6. Scripture as the church's book -- 7. On the Church's teaching office -- 8. The Christian in the life of the church --
VII: Remarks on Christian life -- 1. General characteristics of Christian life -- 2. The sacramental life --
IX: Eschatology -- 1. Presuppositions for understanding eschatology -- 2. The one eschatology as individual eschatology -- 3. The one eschatology as collective eschatology --
Epilogue: Brief creedal statements --
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