Cover

Title

Copyright

Foreword

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Address to the Religio-Cultural World-Community

Epoche as Religio-Cultural Disengagement

Beyond Epoche: The Need for Overarching Principles

THE THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES

THE NEED FOR EVALUATION

THE NATURE OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

METARELIGION

Being is of Two Realms: Ideal and Actual

Ideal Being is Relevant to Actual Being

Relevance of the Ideal to the Actual is a Command

Actual Being is as Such Good

Actual Being is Malleable

Perfection of the Cosmos is Only a Human Burden

The Muslim-Christian Dialogue

Shortcomings of the Christian Comparative Discipline

BISHOP STEPHEN NEILL AND HENDRIK KRAEMER

A C BOUQUET AND ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Notes

PART ONE: What is the Ethic of Jesus?

I THE JEWISH BACKGROUND: JEWISH ETHIC

The Nature of Hebrew Racialism

Hebrew Scripture as a Record of Hebrew Racialism

The Ethico-Political Situation at the Time of Jesus

The Cult of the Law

Notes

II THE ETHICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF JESUS

In Reaction to Jewish Ethic

The Ethic of Intent

The Final Disposition of the Law

The Content of Self-Transformation

The 'Firstness' of the First Command

Notes

III DIALECTIC OF THE NEW ETHIC

The Old Values and the New

IN THE REALM OF THE POLITICAL

IN THE REALM OF THE SOCIAL

IN THE REALM OF THE FAMILY

IN THE REALM OF THE PERSONAL

IN THE REALM OF THE COSMIC

The Ethic of Jesus and Christian Legalism

Notes

IV THE SUFI PARALLEL

The Parallelism

Its Explanation

Notes

PART TWO: The Christianist Transvaluation

V WHAT IS MAN? THE IMAGO DEI

In Hellenic Christianity

In Pre-Reformation Christianity

In the Reformation

In the Christianity of Modern Times

Notes

VI WHAT OUGHT MAN TO BE? SIN AND SALVATION

Man is a Fallen Creature: Peccatism

THE JEWISH BACKGROUND

THE CHRISTIANIST TRANSVALUATION OF THE JEWISH IDEA OF THE FALL

SIN IN THE GOSPEL

SIN IN THE TEACHING OF PAUL

SIN IN THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS

SIN BEFORE AUGUSTINE '

AUGUSTINE: THE EXEMPLAR OF PECCATISM

SIN IN THE REFORMATION

PECCATISM AND CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

Man is Reconciled: Saviourism

CHRISTIANITY IS THE RELIGION OF REDEMPTION '

THE NATURE OF SAVIOURIST SALVATION

Notes

VII WHAT OUGHT MAN TO BE? CHURCH AND SOCIETY

Societism and Personalism

Christianism and Society

IN TRADITIONAL THEOLOGY

IN MODERN THEOLOGY

The Case of William Temple

The Case of Karl Barth

IN THE THEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE

The Lack of Societist Foundations and the Split Consciousness of Western Man

The Societist Transvaluation

The A-Societism of Reinhold Niebuhr

Conclusion

Notes

EPILOGUE

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

INDEX OF BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS

INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BOOK TITLES