Theological EssaysEberhard Jüngel is widely recognised as one of the most important and original theologians of the twentieth-century. Although his essays comprise some of his best critical and constructive writing, few have been available in English. These eight essays have been carefully chosen to illustrate the wide range of Jüngel's current concerns - the ontological implications of the doctrine of justification, the nature of metaphorical and anthropomorphic language, theological anthropology, Christology and ecclesiology, and natural theology. |
Contents
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1 Metaphorical truth Reflections on theological metaphor as a contribution to a hermeneutics of narrative theology | 16 |
a fundamental problem in modern hermeneutics | 72 |
3 The world as possibility and actuality The ontology of the doctrine of justification | 95 |
4 Humanity in correspondence to God Remarks on the image of God as a basic concept in theological anthropology | 124 |
5 Invocation of God as the ethical ground of Christian action Introductory remarks on the posthumous fragments of Karl Earths ethics of the doctrin... | 154 |
6 Extra Christum nulla salusa principle of natural theology? Protestant reflections on the anonymity of the Christian | 173 |
7 The church as sacrament? | 189 |
8 The effectiveness of Christ withdrawn On the process of historical understanding as an introduction to Christology | 214 |
Bibliography | 232 |
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