Contents
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
THE CRUCIFIED GOD: IN EXPLANATION OF THE THEME
The Identity and Relevance of Faith
1. The Crisis of Relevance in Christian Life
2. The Crisis of Identity for Christian Faith
3. Revelation in Contradiction and Dialectic Knowledge
The Resistance of the Cross Against its Interpretations
1. The Unreligious Cross in the Church
3. ‘Are you he who is to come?’
4. ‘Who do you say that I am?’
1. The Question of the Origin of Christology
(a) Jesus and the law: ‘The blasphemer’
(b) Jesus and authority: ‘The rebel’
(c) Jesus and God: ‘The godforsaken’
The Eschatological trial of Jesus Christ
2. Jesus’ Resurrection from the Dead
3. The Significance of the Cross of the Risen Christ
4. The Future of God in the Sign of the Crucified Christ
1. The ‘Death of God’ as the Origin of Christian Theology?
2. Theism and the Theology of the Cross
3. The Theology of the Cross and Atheism
4. The Doctrine of Two Natures and the Suffering of Christ
5. Trinitarian Theology of the Cross
7. Beyond Obedience and Rebellion
9. The Experience of Human Life in the Pathos of God
(a) The apatheia of God and the freedom of man
(b) The pathos of God and the sympatheia of men
(c) The fullness of life in the trinitarian history of God
Ways towards the psychological Liberation of man
1. Psychological Hermeneutics of Liberation
2. Patterns of the Dialogue between Theology and Psychoanalysis
Ways Towards the Political Liberation of Mankind
1. Political Hermeneutics of Liberation
3. Political Theology of the Cross
6. The Transformations of God in the Liberations of Men
Preface to the Paperback Edition
In Explanation of the Theme
1 The Identity and Relevance of Faith
1. The Crisis of Relevance in Christian Life
2. The Crisis of Identity for Christian Faith
3. Revelation in Contradiction and Dialectical Knowledge
2 The Resistance of the Cross against its Interpretations
1. The Unreligious Cross in the Church
2. The Cult of the Cross
3. The Mysticism of the Cross
4. Following the Cross
5. The Theology of the Cross
3 Questions about Jesus
1. Is Jesus true God?
2. Is Jesus true Man?
3. ‘Are you he who is to come?’
4. ‘Who do you say that I am?’
4 The Historical Trial of Jesus
1. The Question of the Origin of Christology
2. Jesus’ Way to the Cross
(a) Jesus and the law: ‘The blasphemer’
(b) Jesus and authority: ‘The rebel’
(c) Jesus and God: ‘The godforsaken’
5 The Eschatological Trial of Jesus Christ
1. Eschatology and History
2. Jesus’ Resurrection from the Dead
3. The Significance of the Cross of the Risen Christ
4. The Future of God in the Sign of the Crucified Christ
6 The ‘Crucified God’
1. The ‘Death of God’ as the Origin of Christian Theology?
2. Theism and the Theology of the Cross
3. The Theology of the Cross and Atheism
4. The Doctrine of Two Natures and the Suffering of Christ
5. Trinitarian Theology of the Cross
6. Beyond Theism and Atheism
7. Beyond Obedience and Rebellion
8. Trinity and Eschatology
9. The Experience of Human Life in the Pathos of God
(a) The apatheia of God and the freedom of man
(b) The pathos of God and the sympatheia of man
(c) The fullness of life in the trinitarian history of God
7 Ways towards the Psychological Liberation of Man
1. Psychological Hermeneutics of Liberation
2. Patterns of the Dialogue between Theology and Psychoanalysis
3. The Law of Repression
4. The Law of Parricide
5. The Principle of Illusion
8 Ways towards the Political Liberation of Man
1. Political Hermeneutics of Liberation
2. Political Religion
3. Political Theology of the Cross
4. Vicious Circles of Death
5. Ways towards Liberation
6. The Transformations of God in the Liberations of Men
Abbreviations
Index of Names