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Tables of Contents for Professing the Faith
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction to Volume Two: Professing the Faith
1
42
1. The Profession of Faith in North America Today
1
21
2. The Contextual Appropriateness of the Profession of Faith
22
7
3. The Organization of the Subject
29
14
PART I: THEOLOGY: THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF GOD
43
144
Chapter One: "Credo in Deum"
43
49
1. The Knowledge of God
43
8
2. The Being of God
51
21
3. The Works of God
72
20
Chapter Two: Questioning the Father Almighty
92
38
4. A Critique of Pure Power
92
9
5. Reasons for the Ideological Triumph of the Positive
101
7
6. God in the North American Context
108
17
7. Summary: Power and the Powers
125
5
Chapter Three: A Suffering God?
130
57
8. After the Death of God, a Quest for Transcendence
130
6
9. Knowing the Living God
136
10
10. Emmanuel: God-with-Us
146
19
11. "God Is at Work in the World..."
165
22
PART II: CREATURELY BEING
187
176
Chapter Four: The World and Humanity as Professed by Faith
187
66
12. The Perspective
187
13
13. The Human Creature
200
10
14. Human Nature
210
12
15. Human Vocation
232
6
16. Creaturely Destiny and Historical Fulfillment
238
15
Chapter Five: From Mastery to Passivity
253
48
17. The Sisyphus Syndrome
253
9
18. The Elevation of the Rational Animal
262
11
19. Purpose Located in Superior Being
273
7
20. The Humiliation of "The New Adam"
280
15
21. The Corrective
295
6
Chapter Six: The Integrity of Creation
301
62
22. Perspective and Priorities
301
6
23. Affirming the World/Resisting Evil
307
7
24. Being and Human Being
314
21
25. Human Creaturehood and Calling
335
18
26. The Destiny of Creation
353
10
PART III: JESUS THE CHRIST, SAVIOR
363
186
Chapter Seven: Jesus--His Person and His Work
363
77
27. The Foundation and Core of Christian Profession
363
7
28. Christology: The Identity of Jesus
370
24
29. Christ for the Church
394
9
30. The Work of Jesus Christ
403
31
31. Christus Rex
434
6
Chapter Eight: Incarnation or Apotheosis?
440
57
32. Christology -- and Jesus, the Christ
440
6
33. The Divinization of Jesus of Nazareth
446
17
34. The Missing Ingredient: Pro Nobis!
463
17
35. Before Christology--Jesus, the Christ
480
17
Chapter Nine: Emmanuel
497
52
36. "Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today?"
497
9
37. Representation as a Contemporary Christological Term
506
20
38. Christ Our Representative
526
23
Conclusion and Transition: "I Am with You Always..." (Matt. 28:20)
549
5
Index of Subjects
554
8
Index of Names
562