Tantur Ecumenical Institute LibraryThe meaning of God
King, Robert Harlen, 1935-
The meaning of God [by] Robert H. King. - Philadelphia, Fortress Press [1973] - x, 166 p. 24 cm.
[CHAPTER 1] The secular challenge to religion -- The problem of transcendence -- Models and images -- Theology as grammar -- [CHAPTER 2] Models of transcendence -- Elusive subject -- Self-in-community -- Agent-in-action -- The choice of a model -- [CHAPTER 3] Intention and action. The agent's world -- Reasons for action -- Limits to agency -- Alternative models -- [CHAPTER 4] The concept of God -- Prophetic faith or mystical faith? -- The paradox of two agents -- Ultimate agency -- Meaning and mystery -- [CHAPTER 5] God and Christ -- Sacred cosmos or world of God? -- The self-enacted parable -- Criteria of ultimacy -- Identification and verification -- [CHAPTER 6] God and ourselves -- Alienation or anomy? -- Ecological motif -- Dialogical motif -- Teleological motif -- The grammar of faith.
0800602579 9780800602574
73080635
God (Christianity)
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231 / K586m
The meaning of God [by] Robert H. King. - Philadelphia, Fortress Press [1973] - x, 166 p. 24 cm.
[CHAPTER 1] The secular challenge to religion -- The problem of transcendence -- Models and images -- Theology as grammar -- [CHAPTER 2] Models of transcendence -- Elusive subject -- Self-in-community -- Agent-in-action -- The choice of a model -- [CHAPTER 3] Intention and action. The agent's world -- Reasons for action -- Limits to agency -- Alternative models -- [CHAPTER 4] The concept of God -- Prophetic faith or mystical faith? -- The paradox of two agents -- Ultimate agency -- Meaning and mystery -- [CHAPTER 5] God and Christ -- Sacred cosmos or world of God? -- The self-enacted parable -- Criteria of ultimacy -- Identification and verification -- [CHAPTER 6] God and ourselves -- Alienation or anomy? -- Ecological motif -- Dialogical motif -- Teleological motif -- The grammar of faith.
0800602579 9780800602574
73080635
God (Christianity)
BT102 / .K48
231 / K586m