Systematic theology.. Vol. I,, Reason and revelation being and God
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University of Chicago Press,
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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 |
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B921 B972 |
Call Number: | B972/T577/v.1 |
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Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1973, c1951. Also published: Vol. 2 and Vol. 3. Distribution is restricted to RFB&D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability. 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 |