Preface

Part I: Introduction: Theology as Construction
1. The Question of God
2. Theology: One-Dimensional, Two-Dimensional, or Holistic?
3. Theology as a Human Imaginative Task
4. Theological Construction and Faith
5. Mystery, Theology, and Conversation
6. The Christian World-Picture (I): The Monotheistic Categorial Scheme
7. The Christian World-Picture (II): The Category of Christ

Part II: Constructing a Concept of the Human
8. Historicity and Biology
9. Humanity in the World
10. Toward a Normative Concept of the Human
11. Agency and Self-Reflexiveness as Sociohistorically Constituted
12. Subjectivity, Experience, and Freedom
13. The Interpenetration of Action with Reflection
14. An Ecological Ethic
15. The Corruption of Historicity: Freedom and Evil
16. Historicity and Religion

Part III: Constructing a Concept of the Context of Human Existence: The World
17. Small Steps of Faith
18. Cosmic Visions and Human Meaning
19. Serendipitous Creativity
20. Directional Movements in a Serendipitous Universe

Part IV: Constructing a Concept of an Ultimate Point of Reference: God
21. Functions of the Symbol "God"
22. Reconstructing the Concept of God
23. Faith in God (I)
24. Sin and Evil
25. A Wider Christology
26. Christ as Paradigm for God and for Humanity
27. A Trinitarian God

Part V: Faith and Life in Today's World
28. Theocentric Faith and the Churches
29. Faith in God (II): Christian Theocentrism

Notes

Name Index

Subject Index

Index of Scriptural References

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Figure 3 Interrelation of action and reflection
Figure 4 Christian theological construction: "small steps" of faith leading to a modern understanding of God