Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: THE COMING FORTH OF GOD AS GOD
Approaches to the Question of God
The Question of Ways to the Question of God
Five Ways to the Question of God
The Way of the Facticity of Redemption
The Classical Catholic Theology of God
Sortings
Origins
Elements
Ambiguities
Varieties of Anti-Theism
Intratheistic Critiques
Resymbolizing
Demythologizing
Deconstructive Anti-Theism
Issues and Appraisals
Meanings and Evidences
The Reality of God as a Problem for Faith
Atheism and the Problem of Meaning God
The Anselmic Principle
The Redemptive Coming Forth of God as God
Human Desire and Eternal Horizon
The Dynamics of Agential Evil
The Dynamics of Agential Redemption
Eternal Horizon as Actual
Some Concluding Matters
PART TWO: A SYMBOLICS OF GOD
The Attribute and Anti-Attribute Traditions
The Attribute Tradition
The Anti-Attribute Tradition
Is Divine Symbolics and Idolatry of God?
A Path to a Symbolics of God
Discernments and the Bespeaking of God
Meaning and Appresentation
Meaning and the Bespecaking of God
Interhuman and Social Spheres and the Bespeaking God
Ciphers and Qualifiers
Ciphers
Qualifiers
Ciphers of Redemption
Human Agency: Ciphers of Founding
The Interhuman: The Cipher of Reconciling Love
The Sociopolitical Cipher of Justice
God as Spirit
Ciphers of Creativity and Holiness
Creativity
The Holy
Unity, Trinity, and the Symbolics of God
PART THREE: THEOLOGY OF GOD AND WORLD
Metaphysics and Its Critics
Metaphysics in Classical and Neoclassical Theologies of God
Metaphysics and the Theology of God
Charges and Rejoinders
On the Way to a Paradigm
The Contributions of Anti-Theism
The Many Faces of Metaphysics
On Thinking God's Relation to the World
Elements of a Paradigm
Metaphysics and Hermeneutics: A Methodological Query
Three-Dimensional World: Cosmos and Nature
Cosmos
Nature
Structural Features of the Sphere of Life
Three-Dimensional World: History
Bears
Historical Passage
Ambiguity
Manifested World
World-For-Us
The Being of the World
World Constituents and Root Metaphors
Entities, Relations, Events, and Environments
World as Creation
Theology of World
The Genesis of World as Creation
Creation: Unpacking a Symbol
World Polarities: Implications of World as Creation
Aporias and Boundaries
The Vent of Jesus as Christ
The Event of Jesus as Christ in Its Resolution: The Ecclesia
The Event of Jesus as Christ: The Precipitating Figure
The Figure of Jesus: Universality, Pathos, and Empathy
The Universalization of the Faith of Israel
The Pathos of the As-Such
The Empathic Union
Smmary and Conclusion
Divine Empathy: Preliminary Considerations
Some Guiding Principles
Retrieving Elements from the Sources
Divine Activity Minus "quot;Christian Cosmology"
The Efficacy of the Divine Empathy
Entities in the Making
Efficacious Empathy
Some Reinterpretations
Index
