CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: BACKGROUND

1. METHOD

1. A Preliminary Notion

2. The Basic Pattern of Operations

3. Transcendental Method

4. The Functions of Transcendental Method

2. THE HUMAN GOOD

1. Skills

2. Feelings

3. The Notion of Value

4. Judgments of Value

5. Beliefs

6. The Structure of the Human Good

7. Progress and Decline

3. MEANING

1. Intersubjectivity

2. Intersubjective Meaning

3. Art

4. Symbols

5. Linguistic Meaning

6. Incarnate Meaning

7. Elements of Meaning

8. Functions of Meaning

9. Realms of Meaning

10. Stages of Meaning

4. RELIGION

1. The Question of God

2. Self-Transcendence

3. Religious Experience

4. Expressions of Religious Experience

5. Religious Development Dialectical

6. The Word

7. Faith

8. Religious Belief

9. A Technical Note

5. FUNCTIONAL SPECIALTIES

1. Three Types of Specialization

2. An Eightfold Division

3. Grounds of the Division

4. The Need for Division

5. A Dynamic Unity

6. Conclusion

PART TWO: FOREGROUND

6. RESEARCH

7. INTERPRETATION

1. Basic Exegetical Operations

2. Understanding the Object

3. Understanding the Words

4. Understanding the Author

5. Understanding Oneself

6. Judging the Correctness of One's Interpretation

7. A Clarification

8. Stating the Meaning of the Text

8. HISTORY

1. Nature and History

2. Historical Experience and Historical Knowledge

3. Critical History

9. HISTORY AND HISTORIANS

1. Three Handbooks

2. Data and Facts

3. Three Historians

4. Verstehen

5. Perspectivism

6. Horizons

7. Heuristic Structures

8. Science and Scholarship

10. DIALECTIC

1. Horizons

2. Conversions and Breakdowns

3. Dialectic: The Issue

4. Dialectic: The Problem

5. Dialectic: The Structure

6. Dialectic as Method

7. The Dialectic of Methods: Part One

8. The Dialectic of Methods: Part Two

9. The Dialectic of Methods: Part Three

10. A Supplementary Note

11. FOUNDATIONS

1. Foundational Reality

2. The Sufficiency of the Foundational Reality

3. Pluralism in Expression

4. Pluralism in Religious Language

5. Categories

6. General Theological Categories

7. Special Theological Categories

8. Use of the Categories

12. DOCTRINES

1. Varieties

2. Functions

3. Variations

4. Differentiations of Consciousness

5. The Ongoing Discovery of Mind: Part One

6. Ongoing Contexts

7. The Ongoing Discovery of Mind: Part Two

8. The Development of Doctrines

9. The Permanence of Dogmas

10. The Historicity of Dogmas

11. Pluralism and the Unity of Faith

12. The Autonomy of Theology

13. SYSTEMATICS

1. The Function of Systematics

2. Closed Options

3. Mystery and Problem

4. Understanding and Truth

5. Continuity, Development, Revision

14. COMMUNICATIONS

1. Meaning and Ontology

2. Common Meaning and Ontology

3. Society, State, Church

4. The Christian Church and Its Contemporary Situation

5. The Church and the Churches

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