Ogden Notebooks : Section 1: On Theology, 1-114

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1. Sources particularly important . . .
2. Concept/term "critical appropriation" . . .
3. What Michalson completely overlooks . . .
4. Letter to Gordon Michalson
5. Critical Validation
6. Typologies
7. Types of Christian Theology (Frei)
8. Michalson letter (28 June 2000)
9. What is it to do Christian theology?
10. Theology may be defined . . .
11. Theology in the generic-specific sense of "Christian theology" . . .
12. Fully Critical Reflection
13. Theology as a form of rationalization
14. Historical and Practical
15. Why is it not possible to determine the self-understanding . . .
16. To determine that bearing witness is credible . . .
17. genitivus objectivus
18. Traditions originate, presumably . . .
19. Basic Problems of Systematic Theology
20. Science vs. Wisdom
21. Philosophy and theology . . .
22. At an earlier stage in my thinking about (doing) theology . . .
23. Christian Witness
24. Debriefing After Writing My Paper for the Potthoff Group
25. After completing "Present Prospects for Doing Christian Theology" . . .
26. What Am I Doing in Arguing Theologically?
27. Success and failure . . .
28. Historical theology is logically prior . . .
29. Fully Critical Understanding
30. Basic Theology
31. Precritical Senses
32. On the prevailing understanding . . .
33. Critical Theologies
34. Christian faith is faith in Jesus as the Christ . . .
35. It is careless and forced to say . . .
36. Bultman's phrase, "the 'right' philosophy"
37. Criteriological Problem
39. Is doing empirical-historical research necessary . . .
40. A Philosophy of Religion: Some Theses
41. Allowing that critical reflection.. or critical appropriation..
42. What, exactly, are "formally normative Christian witness" and . . .
43. I have argued that, in the nature of the case . . .
44. The criteria proper to doing any fully critical reflection . . .
45. Present Prospects for Doing Christian Theology
46. Question: How is practical theology to be conceived?
47. Sentences are not true or false just as such
48. In my discussion of inferences . . .
49. The constitutive question of theology as a field . . .
50. Theology is, indeed, thought and speech about God . . .
51. Any instance of Christian witness makes . . .
52. Proposal to be considered . . .
53. Concerning My Earlier Understanding of Theology
54. I should still say that theology may be defined . . .
55. I find it interesting that, already . . .
56. There is a sense in which the first, historical phase of systematic theology . . .
57. In earlier formulations . . .
58. I have argued that . . .
59. If there is a distinction to be made between assertions . . .
60. To claim, as I do, that the data of Christian theology . . .
61. What are the data of theological reflection?
62. Historical-situational conditionedness of theological reflection . . .
63. Human beings obviously differ . . .
64. Why is the indirect service . . .
65. Any instance of Christian witness expresses . . .
66. In what way does the first historical phase of systematic theology . . .
67. Systematic theology I have defined . . .
68. Who has the right and the responsibility . . .
69. What, properly, is theological methodology?
70. I have long reasoned in the matter of prolegomena . . .
71. Establishing, as theology is called to do . . .
72. The general rule for understanding . . .
73. "Systematic theology" can be used in at least three senses
74. What is to be said about the difference . . .
75. Systematic theology includes as integral parts . . .
76. What, in fact, is believed or done is one question . . .
77. I prefer to speak of . . .
78. It would appear that . . .
79. I find it interesting that . . .
80. An early—if not the earliest . . .
81. The usual way of employing . . .
82. Rightly distinguishing things . . .
83. Why is my understanding . . .
84. GRC-50 Introduction to Theology
85. What is Christian Theology?
86. What is the Proper Task of Theology?
87. What is Theology?
88. On the Polarity of "Witness" and "Existence"
89. Just as practical . . .
90. Making or implying . . .
91. Does it make sense . . .
92. Clearly, there are differences . . .
93. Conceived classically . . .
94. One place in my writings . . .
95. That historical theology is indeed first . . .
96. The key to understanding the relation . . .
97. Bearing Christian witness anticipates . . .
98. The one thing that now seems clear . . .
99. Do I need to retract what I have said . . .
100. On the Distinction between "Theology" and "Theology as a Christian Vocation"
101. How do I distinguish my understanding . . .
102. On the issue of theory and practice . . .
103. Granted that theology is properly done . . .
104. Theology, I've argued . . .
105. The critical reflection proper to Christian theology . . .
106. Insofar as the Christian witness . . .
107. To what must appropriate witness be appropriate?
108. What is required for a witness . . .
109. Although asking about the fittingness . . .
110. Reason is involved both wherever claims . . .
111. Clearly, part of the justification for any concept . . .
112. We act toward the future and are, within limits . . .
113. Theology in the sense of critical reflection . . .
114. Is theology a science?