TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niebuhr,Richard R.
TI  - Resurrection and historical reason: a study of theological method 
AV  - BT 480 N551 1957
PY  - 1957///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Scribner's Sons
KW  - JESUS CHRIST
KW  - RESURRECTION
N1  - 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
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