God as the mystery of the world : on the foundation of the theology of the crucified one in the dispute between theism and atheism /: on the foundation of the theology of the crucified one in the dispute between theism and atheism. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Gott als Geheimnis der Welt.
• Further Information: Note: By Eberhard Jüngel ; foreword by R. David Nelson ; translated by Darrell L. Guder.
• Authors: Jüngel, Eberhard
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Foreword to the First and Second Editions; Foreword to the Third Edition; Foreword to the English Text; Translator's Preface; Abbreviations; I. Introduction; 1. The Definition of the Problem; 2. Is God Necessary?; 3. The Basic Theological Uncertainty (Aporia) of Christian Talk about God; II. Talk about the Death of God as an Expression of the Uncertainty of Modern Thinking about God; 4. The Significance and the Absurdity of Talk about the Death of God; 5. The Twofold Source of Talk about the Death of God; 6. Where Is God?; a. The Biblical Question; b. The Modern Question. 7. Talk about the Death of God as the Theological Answer to the Question: Where Is God?a. Bonhoeffer's Contribution to the Return of ""Death of God"" Talk to Theology; b. Hegel's Mediation between the Atheistic Modern Feeling and the Christian Truth of the Death of God; c. The Significance of Talk about the Death of God: The Problem of the Essence of God; III. On the Possibility of Thinking God; 8. The Position of Thought between God and God: On the Problematic of the Modern Concept of God. 9. The Self-Establishment of Modern Thought in the Cartesian ""I Think"" as the Premise for the Destruction of the Metaphysically Established Certainty of Goda. The Power of Doubt: Methodological Doubt as the Premise for the Establishment of the Necessity of God; b. The Securing of God as the Disintegration of the Certainty of God; 10. The Metaphysical Concept of God in the Modern Disputation of the Possibility of Thinking God; a. Fichte's Demand: God ""should...not be thought at all""; b. Feuerbach's Assertion: ""Only when thy thought is God dost thou truly think, rigorously speaking"" C. Nietzsche's Question: ""Could you conceive a God?""d. The Actual Inconceivability of the Metaphysical Concept of God for Thought Which Establishes Itself on ""I Think""; 11. The Word as the Place of the Conceivability of God; 12. The Certainty of Faith as the Deprivation of Security; 13. God's Unity with Perishability as the Basis for Thinking God; a. The Double Necessity of Thinking God's Unity with Perishability; b. The Double Possibility of Thinking God's Unity with Perishability: The Ontological Significance of Christological Talk about the Death of God; IV. On the Speakability of God. 14. The Statement of the Problem15. The Classic Thesis: ""The Deity, therefore, is ineffable and incomprehensible""; 16. The Disputed Mystery; a. The Question about God; b. God as Mystery; c. Silencing God through the Exaggeration of Language; 17. The Problem of Analogous Talk about God; 18. The Gospel as Analogous Talk about God; V. On the Humanity of God; 19. The Humanity of God as a Story to be Told; Hermeneutical Preface; 20. The God Who Is Love; On the Identity of God and Love; 21. Faith in the Humanity of God; On the Distinction between Faith and Love.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 414 pages)
• Subjects: 231; God; Theology; RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General; God; Theology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567659835; 0567659836
• Related ISBNs: 9780567265449; 0567265447; 056709345X; 9780567093455
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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