The Secular Meaning of the Gospel Based on an Analysis of Its Language - Paul Van Buren
KORTE INHOUD
The contemporary problem for theology and faith: a secular understanding of the gospel; The two sides of the problem: Christology and understanding; the method and nature of this study The concern for Christology. The way to Chalcedon; Evaluations of Chalcedon; The problem of patristic and biblical categories; A Christology of "call" and "response" The concern for understanding. Existentialist interpretations of a gospel without myth; Problems of "God," language, and history; an analysis of the radical alternative Analyses of theological language. The problem of religious language; Linguistic analyses of religious assertions; a method for reconstruction Jesus of Nazareth. The problem of history; the historical Jesus; Easter The meaning of the gospel. The gospel as the expression of a historical perspective; the language of New Testament Christology The meaning of Christology. Theology's responsibility to its own past; Analysis of the language of Christology; The function of Christology The meaning of theology...
