Systematic theology.. Vol. I,, Reason and revelation being and God

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tillich Paul
Published: University of Chicago Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, NJ
Publication Dates: 1973.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xi, 300 p.: ; 23 cm.
Index Number: B921
CLC: B921
B972
Call Number: B972/T577/v.1
Contents: Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1973, c1951.
Also published: Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.
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Introduction: Point of view; Nature of systematic theology; Organization of theology; Method and structure of systematic theology -- Reason and revelation: Reason and the quest for revelation, the structure of reason, reason in existence, the cognitive function of reason and the quest for revelation; Reality of revelation, the meaning of revelation, actual revelation, reason in final revelation, the ground of revelation -- Being and God: Being and the question of God, introduction the question of being, the basic ontological structure, self and world, the ontological elements, being and fini
This is the first part of [the] three-volume Systematic Theology.... [The author] presents the basic method and statement of his system - his famous "correlation" of man's deepest questions with theological answer. Here the focus is on the concepts of being and reason.... [He] defines his thought in relation to philosophy and the Bible and sets forth his famous doctrine of God as the "Ground of Being." Thus God is understood not as a being existing beside other beings, but as being-itself or the power of being in everything. God cannot be made into an object; religious knowledge is, therefor