Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 363-372.

The Openness of Being and of Man -- The Luminosity of Being -- The Analogy of Being -- Man as Spirit -- The Hiddenness of Being -- The Problem and How to Solve It -- God Free and Unknown -- The Free Listener -- The Place of the Free Message -- Explaining the Question -- Man as a Material Being -- Man as an Historical Spirit -- Spirit and Historicity: Being and Appearance -- The Human Historicity of a Possible Revelation -- Philosophy and Theology -- Theology and Anthropology -- Philosophy and Theology -- Philosophy and Philosophising in Theology -- The Historicity of Theology -- Scripture, Tradition, and the Development of Doctrine -- Inspiration in the Bible -- The Development of ogma Within Scripture -- The Development of Dogma -- The Theology of Mystery and Symbol -- The Concept of Mystery in Catholic Theology -- The Theology of the Symbol -- The Triune God -- Observations on the Doctrine of God -- Theos in the New Testament -- Remarks on the Treatise "De Trinitate" -- The Incarnation -- On the Theology of the Incarnation -- Christ the Mediator: One Person and Two Natures -- The Knowledge and Self-Consciousness of Christ -- Christology Within an Evolutionary View of the World -- Grace -- Nature and Grace -- Relationship Between Nature and Grace: The Supernatural Existential -- The Order of Creation and the Order of Redemption -- The Experience of Grace -- Grace and Concupiscence -- Faith, Hope, and Charity -- A Short Formula of Christian Faith -- Anonymous Christians -- Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions -- Atheism and Implicit Christianity -- On the Theology of Hope -- Unity of the Love of Neighbor and Love of God -- Moral Theology -- A Formal Existential Ethics -- The Fundamental Option -- The Dignity and Freedom of Man -- The Faith Instinct -- The Church and the Sacraments -- The Fundamental Sacrament and the Sacraments --The Causality of the Sacraments -- Episcopate and Primacy --The Charismatic Element in the Church -- The Parochial Principle -- The Church of Sinners -- The Diaspora Church -- Spirituality -- Justified and Sinner at the Same Time -- Ignatian Mysticism of Joy in the World -- The Nature and Necessity of Asceticism -- The Evangelical Counsels -- Religious Obedience -- Lay Spirituality -- Ideology, Eschatology, and the Theology of Death -- Ideology and Christianity -- The Christian Future of Man -- The Church and the Parousia of Christ -- On Christian Dying -- The Life of the Dead -- The Resurrecton of the Body

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