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- Schubert M. Ogden Notebooks
  - Section 1: On Theology, 1-114
    - 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?
      - 115. I find it interesting that, in "Theology in the University". . .
      - 116. If the question to which theology is addressed . . .
      - 117. If theology is witness, it is indirect and unintentional . . .
      - 118. Upon further reflection, I doubt whether it is advisable . . .
      - 119. The belief that faith goes beyond belief is one . . .
      - 120. The question of the authenticity of faith is one . . .
  - Section 2: On Religion, 121-161
    - 121. De Religione
    - 122. There are two possibilities—and only two . . .
    - 123. What exactly, is "the fundamental decision . . .
    - 124. What is it to be "religious"?
    - 125. What is the real religious issue? . . .
    - 126. A religion is an explicitly authorized understanding . . .
    - 127. What is the Christian religious attitude?
    - 128. Granted that any religion has both a metaphysical . . .
    - 129. Being religious is explicitly understanding oneself . . .
    - 130. Some elements in a religion (or religious tradition) . . .
    - 131. The word that Jesus is frees me from him . . .
    - 132. Among the insights into the meaning of superstition . . .
    - 133. I have written that "religion as such is neither a metaphysics . . .
    - 134. Religious beliefs, theoretical as well as practical, are always . . .
    - 135. Bultmann argues that there is one assessment of Jesus' . . .
    - 136. Now that it has occurred to me, it seems obvious . . .
    - 137. I have written that "religious or theological statements . . .
    - 138. On Religion
    - 139. My question is whether something like the distinction between . . .
    - 140. Isn't part of the pathos of a religion that the (strictly) ultimate . . .
    - 141. How should I use the concept/term "decisive"?
    - 142. Cantwell Smith is noted for his proposal to replace . . .
    - 143. The truth, as I see it, in Cantwell Smith's demand for "a world theology" . . .
    - 144. A religion's appeal to revelation is simply one more way . . .
    - 145. To ask the existential question is to presuppose . . .
    - 146. You can't just say, as I have said, that "prophets, sages, and saints . . .
    - 147. A process theology is not relevant to belief in God . . .
    - 148. One of the things I learned from my Auseinandersetzung . . .
    - 149. There would appear to be an important analogy between a mysticism . . .
    - 150. Analyses of the "axial religions" commonly point up what has been . . .
    - 151. What, exactly, is mysticism? . . .
    - 152. On my analysis (following W.A. Christian) . . .
    - 153. I obviously use "action" in more than one sense
    - 154. I fear I have misled as well as been misled . . .
    - 155. Just as the metaphysical is not something alongside the physical...
    - 156. If the religious question is properly interpreted as the existential . . .
    - 157. I have argued that the existential question about the ultimate . . .
    - 158. All judgments about the truth of a religion or religions . . .
    - 159. I have reasoned for a long time in some such way as . . .
    - 160. AN INTERVIEW WITH SCHUBERT M. OGDEN
    - 161. Einsteinian religion is a kind of spirituality . . .
  - Section 3: On Authority, 162-221
    - 162. The primal ontic source of all authority can . . .
    - 163. According to E. M. Adams . . .
    - 164. Adams asserts that "no one simply as a human being . . .
    - 165. An office is defined or constituted by a certain imperative . . .
    - 166. In some cases, "authority" is used to refer to someone . . .
    - 167. Is there really any good reason not to say that, although x . . .
    - 168. What does it mean to authorize?
    - 169. Propositions, Instructions, and Performatives
    - 170. My concern in what follows . . .
    - 171. Concerning Authority
    - 172. Here, again, in "Notes on the Doctrine of Authority" . . .
    - 173. "The appeal to history is the appeal to summits of attainment . . .
    - 174. Does it make sense to say that the distinction between . . .
    - 175. What's the significance, if any, of Bultmann's distinction . . .
    - 176. Could it be that religious authority properly so-called is . . .
    - 177. There would appear to be three distinctions . . .
    - 178. There would appear to be two distinctions . . .
    - 179. Without implying that they are the only or even the most . . .
    - 180. According to orthodoxy, establishing the principle that scripture . . .
    - 181. If it is correct to say that x may be authorized without being . . .
    - 182. In point of fact, the regret expressed in the attached note about my formulations . . .
    - 183. Concerning the Authority of Scripture . . .
    - 184. THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN MORALITY TODAY
    - 185. How, if at all, is the moral teaching of the Bible authoritative . . .
    - 186. In arguing, as I long have, that God is not properly an authority . . .
    - 187. Will it do to speak of God as ontic (rather than ontological) . . .
    - 188. Insofar as x is a source of Christian religious authority . . .
    - 189. Could it be that religious authority includes a performative . . .
    - 190. Whether or not Y's believing p simply because X . . .
    - 191. Consider the following passages
    - 192. If all nonexecutive authority can be legitimate only if it is authorized . . .
    - 193. If epistemic authority is, in the nature of the case . . .
    - 194. The general justification for believing things on the basis . . .
    - 195. One is the bearer of authority de jure over . . .
    - 196. Is authority in its "basic structure" a triadic relation . . .
    - 197. According to Marxsen, the earlier Israelite understanding of the law . . .
    - 198. It seems clear for several reasons, etymological included . . .
    - 199. The larger context of Watt's study . . .
    - 200. We could not understand or recognize an authority for which there . . .
    - 201. What is a relationship of authority?
    - 202. Consider the following passages
    - 203. Consider the following passages
    - 204. An authority may indeed be a reason for believing something . . .
    - 205. To have moral (= deontic, executive) authority is to have an office . . .
    - 206. Granted that all persons are bearers of authority . . .
    - 207. What is a decision?
    - 208. To allow that such a thing as "spurious authority" is possible . . .
    - 209. Consider the following passages
    - 210. According to De George, "in order to grant anyone epistemic authority . . .
    - 211. I keep coming back to the thought that the distinction . . .
    - 212. Consider the following passages "If Y knows P to be true . . .
    - 213. It is essential to De George's analysis of legitimate epistemic . . .
    - 214. In most of my previous work I have tended . . .
    - 215. If De George is right, it would seem that religious authority . . .
    - 216. To authorize is at once (1) to entitle and (2) to empower
    - 217. What, exactly, is the auctoritas causativa of the Christian witness?
    - 218. Bochenski allows as how "performatives" are "a third kind of independent...
    - 219. According to Bochenski, there are not only the two kinds of independent . . .
    - 220. If I understand Bochenski's reasoning . . .
    - 221. I infer from Bochenski's argument that . . .
  - Section 4: On Human Existence, 222-245
    - 222. Human existence is the actualization of the human essence . . .
    - 223. What is rationality?
    - 224. To be an understanding (or, alternatively, thinking-speaking) animal . . .
    - 225. What is it to be rational?
    - 226. To understand myself in a certain way is to behave . . .
    - 227. I obviously use "action" in more than one sense...
    - 228. Charles Taylor says of us as human beings that . . .
    - 229. Humans are beings who not only exist and experience but . . .
    - 230. To exist as a self at all is to exist by faith . . .
    - 231. I have characterized our universal calling . . .
    - 232. Our original call to be a human being is the call to understand . . .
    - 233. The purpose of human life is to make the greatest possible use . . .
    - 234. I keep coming back to the basic insight . . .
    - 235. Concerning Original Sin. According to Reinhold Niebuhr . . .
    - 236. On Sin
    - 237. For Paul, "the primal sin of the world . . .
    - 238. In his discussion with KamIah, Bultmann . . .
    - 239. Having realized that Bultmann understands "the true scandal" . . .
    - 240. Another passage where it seems to me Bultmann . . .
    - 241. Without attempting to develop them as fully . . .
    - 242. To what extent can the difference between virtues in general and . . .
    - 243. I find it interesting that the two so-called religions . . .
    - 244. In "Informal Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology," I projected . . .
    - 245. On the dominium terrae
  - Section 5: On the Existential Question, 246-262
    - 246. What, exactly, does the existential question ask?...
    - 247. How is the existential question to be described?
    - 248. As I think about it and look back on what I've said, I've sometimes...
    - 249. Are the credenda and agenda necessarily implied by Christian faith...
    - 250. What do I mean by distinguishing talk about the meaning of ultimate reality...
    - 251. That there are good reasons for distinguishing the two aspects of the...
    - 252. Properly religious assertions of the existential beliefs necessarily implied...
    - 253. If the determinative use of religious utterances is broadly cognitive...
    - 254. Credenda and agenda are related to religious faith in particular as world view...
    - 255. What has always been at stake for me in insisting on "the reality of God"...
    - 256. Another important difference between Phillips's view and my own is that he never...
    - 257. My guess is that the biggest difference between Phillips's...
    - 258. Just how different, really, is my position from Phillips's?...
    - 259. Necessarily implied by my analysis of the existential question as a single question...
    - 260. What, exactly, is meant by "the ultimate meaning of my life"?...
    - 261. Is it correct to say, as I've said, that "the indirect form of Christian witness...
    - 262. I realize now that it has really been only by a fairly long ...
  - Section 6: On the Foundation of Faith, 263-280
    - 263. What is my own answer to the question as to "the foundation of faith...
    - 264. There would appear to be two fundamental presuppositions of the Christian witness...
    - 265. take what orthodoxy analyzes as "the essential or substantial foundation of faith"...
    - 266. Theology, in the strict sense of the Christian doctrine of God...
    - 267. Is doing empirical-historical research necessary to bearing Christian...
    - 268. What is meant, properly, by the extra nos?...
    - 269. The twofold assertion (or the two assertions) constitutive of Christian ...
    - 270. Traditionally, there have been two basic ways of asserting Jesus' decisive...
    - 271. It is not simply false to say that the constitutive Christian confession...
    - 272. What Christians mean by the apostles are the first and foundational...
    - 273. Just as the existence of anything is sufficient evidence of the reality...
    - 274. According to Schleiermacher, "God" in the properly religious sense of the term...
    - 275. To speak of "the ground of faith" is presumably only verbally different from...
    - 276. What is the ground of faith?...
    - 277. That there is a witnessing community is sufficient evidence that there was ...
    - 278. What Marxsen says about the way in which the law or a merely spiritual ...
    - 279. What Sumner understands by "the 'nuanced internalism' of orthodoxy" and "the 'nuanced externalism'...
    - 280. How adequate would it be to take "heresy" to apply to any formulation of faith . . .
    - Is Conformity to the facts of experience a criterion of heresy?
  - Section 7: On a Confessional Statement, 281-288
    - 281. What makes a statement properly a confessional statement?...
    - 282. The confession of Jesus as the Christ . . .
    - 283. The confession that constitutes one a Christian explicitly . . .
    - 284. What constitutes Christian confession is one question . . .
    - 285. I have argued that "Christian witness is constituted explicitly . . .
    - 286. What is the twofold constitutive assertion . . .
    - 287. It now seems clear to me that I have been at cross purposes . . .
    - 288. When I say that "the assertion, in some concepts and terms . . .
  - Section 8: On Scripture, Hermeneutics, and History, 289-309
    - 289. How, according to Bultmann, is scripture rightly understood . . .
    - 290. Te totum applica ad textum . . .
    - 291. Just as understanding any text is understanding something historical . . .
    - 292. What, exactly, is "the hermeneutical problem" . . .
    - 293. The concept of "a hermeneutics of suspicion," . . .
    - 294. I have long found it somewhat strange . . .
    - 295. Simply in living as we all do, we find ourselves engaged . . .
    - 296. Bultmann and "the objective of interpretation"
    - 297. Claims concerning inspiration and inerrancy
    - 298. The significance of Bultmann's hermeneutics
    - 299. Wiles on Interpretation
    - 300. What Is 'A Theological Interpretation of the Bible?
    - 301. Theological Interpretation of the Bible
    - 302. What is hermeneutics?
    - 303. Marxsen on exegesis.
    - 304. Concerning Exegesis.
    - 305. Concerning "die Sachkritik"
    - 306. Bultmann on "die Sachkritik"
    - 307. Is there such a thing as a special biblical or theological hermeneutics?
    - 308. On Critical Interpretation as Itself a Kind of Critical Validation
    - 309. What is history?
  - Section 9: On the Canon 310-358
    - 310. Is the canon open or closed?
    - 311. I agree with Marxsen . . .
    - 312. The question of the Christian canon . . .
    - 313. On "the Christian Witness of the Bible"
    - 314. How, if at all, is the Old Testament, as well as the New, to be used as a normative . . .
    - 315. In critically appropriating Paul Capetz's "Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Old Testament,"...
    - 316. Marxsen sometimes seems to reason that . . .
    - 317. According to Lee M. McDonald . . .
    - 318. I just realized that given Marxsen's definition of the New Testament . . .
    - 319. Knox argues that . . .
    - 320. Concerning Inspiration
    - 321. To accept Jesus as the Christ . . .
    - 322. What is right in the notion of an inspired scripture?
    - 323. The notion of an (verbally) inspired scripture
    - 324. The notion of the self-understanding of the Bible
    - 325. NT authors and the canon
    - 326. The appeal to scripture and tradition
    - 327. The earliest Christian witness, in both the pre-Easter form of the Jesus-kerygma...
    - 328. For orthodoxy, the prophets and apostles . . .
    - 329. Use of the OT in the NT
    - 330. Karl Barth, quote, Kirchliche Dogmatik
    - 331. H. G. von Campenhausen, Die Entstechung der chriatlichen Bibel
    - 332. H. Marxsen, quote, Der Exeget als Theologe
    - 333. Why do some conservative NT scholars . . .
    - 334. If infallibility is a charism properly belonging to the church . . .
    - 335. I need to retrieve the truth in the Roman Catholic teaching . . .
    - 336. The unique authority of the apostolic witness . . .
    - 337. Substantially true and formally true
    - 338. Components of "the canon before the canon"
    - 339. Is the Jesus-kerygma alone formally apostolic and therefore canonical?
    - 340. Assigning priority to the Jesus-kerygma
    - 341. Two main types of Christian witness in NT
    - 342. John Knox and two distinguishable phases . . .
    - 343. "Christ-kerygma", "Jesus-kerygma," and the Christ-event
    - 344. A danger in the Jesus-kerygma
    - 345. The New Testament is "the oldest preserved book of the church's sermons"
    - 346. Furnish and "the issue of Scripture and tradition"
    - 347. The old alternative between "scripture alone" and "scripture and tradition" is obsolete
    - 348. Marxsen and the apostolic principle
    - 349. Why is the earliest witness uniquely authoritative?
    - 350. Origin of the church and its witness
    - 351. I have generally resisted Bultmann's distinction between what is a matter of authority . . .
    - 352. Why is apostolicity the right principle for determining what is formally normative for Christian witness and theology?
    - 353. Why is the earliest Christian witness uniquely authoritative?
    - 354. On Faith in Scripture, etc.
    - 355. Why is the earliest (= apostolic) witness normative?
    - 356. What is "apostolic" witness?
    - 357. One of the implications of the concept "sole primary authority," in the sense of norma normans sed . . .
    - 358. That Jesus, through his words and deeds, shows me a possibility for . . .
  - Section 10: Exercises in Exegesis, 359-375
    - 359. COMMENTARY ON ROMANS
    - 360. In Rom 1 18-25, Paul argues that "the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all . . .
    - 361. Romans 1:18-3:20
    - 362. Paul's "born of woman, born under the law" (Gal 4:4), is arguably his way . . .
    - 363. Galatians 4:4-7
    - 364. What, exactly, is meant by "the gospel" . . .
    - 365. What is the significance of Paul's speaking, as he does, of "the law of Christ" . . .
    - 366. In what sense does Paul claim to be an apostle?
    - 367. Is Paul a theologian, in the strict and proper sense of the words?
    - 368. What does Paul understand by the law?
    - 369. 1 Corinthians 8:1-3
    - 370. What most distinguishes scripture are not its specific moral teachings and rules . . .
    - 371. The so-called ethical sections of Paul's letters are not loosely tacked on to the weightier . . .
    - 372. When Paul speaks of the Spirit of God, he is thinking primarily of the presence...
    - 373. On Isaiah 65:17-25
    - 374. The place of early Christian communities in their environment
    - 375. What's the significance of the fact that, according to Paul, Christ in the end delivers . . .
  - Section 11: On God, 376-443
    - 376. Who or what is God?
    - 377. Who is the God of whom Paul speaks in Rom 1:19 . . .
    - 378. A review of my writings shows that recognition of the pertinence of Paul's implicit . . .
    - 379. God, according to Paul's doxology in Romans 11:36 . . .
    - 380. Used religiously, "God" means the primal source and the final end of the mystery . . .
    - 381. God is the all-worshipful, hence the unsurpassable . . .
    - 382. The conceptuality terminology of theistic religion includes distinctive concepts . . .
    - 383. Theistic religions, I have argued, characteristically generate concepts . . .
    - 384. That human beings universally are not theists in anything like the sense . . .
    - 385. It seems reasonable to hold that theism, properly so-called, necessarily involves . . .
    - 386. What Makes Theism Theism?
    - 387. By definition, strictly ultimate reality is strictly universal and strictly necessary . . .
    - 388. The truth of the statement, "If God does not exist, everything is permitted," . . .
    - 389. What do I mean, exactly, by "radical monotheism"?
    - 390. Presuppositions Necessary to Understanding the First Article
    - 391. 1 Th 1:9, ". . . you turned to God from idols . . ."
    - 392. One way of putting the insight that my study of Maurice . . .
    - 393. The more I read and study Maurice, the clearer it becomes . . .
    - 394. What does it mean to say that, "though the Incarnation came later than the fall . . .
    - 395. Eschatological terms, like protological ones, function to express what is source . . .
    - 396. I assume that there is a close correspondence between Tillich's talk of "absolute faith . . .
    - 397. On Tillich's Dictum "The End of Creation Is the Beginning of the Fall"
    - 398. I've long sensed that when Bultmann speaks of God as "the Creator," he means more . . .
    - 399. My polemic in "The Reality of God" was twofold on the one hand . . .
    - 400. What is to be said about the view that moral commitment is meaningless . . .
    - 401. According to Forberg, as Gerrish interprets him . . .
    - 402. What are the objections to teleology, in the sense of "a single absolute world-plan . . .
    - 403. The traditional doctrine that God can create and consummate any logically possible . . .
    - 404. The basic idea to be worked out is...
    - 405. On God's Work
    - 406. On the Works of God Ad Extra
    - 407. The divine action whereby God is ad intra triune...
    - 408. On Divine Intervention
    - 409. A story concerning divine intervention
    - 410. Shouldn't Whitehead's perceptive comment about "the defect of the Greek analysis of generation" . . .
    - 411. In What Sense(s) Am I a "Universalist"?
    - 412. In my theological understanding, God and faith belong together in the sense that "God" . . .
    - 413. On Implicit/Explicit Primal Authorizing Source
    - 414. Whitehead says that philosophy, although "mystical," is concerned "to rationalize mysticism . . .
    - 415. Meister Eckhart on Creation
    - 416. God and the world are at each other's service . . .
    - 417. He that made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves.
    - 418. Whereas all individuals other than God are individuated . . .
    - 419. God the Creator or sole primal source of all things . . .
    - 420. God is rightly conceived as creating the world freely . . .
    - 421. God is the all-worshipful, hence the unsurpassable, hence the one universal . . .
    - 422. What I am is God's gift to me what I become is my gift to God . . .
    - 423. What is the role that properly belongs to God?
    - 424. The petition of the Lord's Prayer, "your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven," . . .
    - 425. On Providence
    - 426. The role of God as Creator-Emancipator . . .
    - 427. When Quenstedt argues that the same effect is produced not by God alone . . .
    - 428. On the Different Senses of "Transcendence"
    - 429. Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and Christian Faith in God
    - 430. On the Natural and the Supernatural
    - 431. In what sense, if any, can I affirm the so-called double gratuity?
    - 432. On Nature and Grace
    - 433. What is properly meant by "supernaturalism"?
    - 434. I find it interesting that Hartshorne is every bit as emphatic as Bultmann . . .
    - 435. I find it interesting that there is at least one place where Hartshorne defends . . .
    - 436. What does the religious doctrine of creatio ex nihilo...
    - 437. On the Meaning of "Grace"
    - 438. In what sense is it true that "God is absent from modern science"?...
    - 439. Calvin on Knowledge of God and of Ourselves
    - 440. Where is God in tough times?
    - 441. What is meant by "an act of God"?
    - 442. THE AGENCY OF GOD: TWENTY-ONE THESES
    - 443. THE AGENCY OF GOD
  - Section 12: On the Trinity, 444-461
    - 444. On the Doctrine of the Trinity
    - 445. What does the doctrine of the trinity have to do with metaphysics?
    - 446. On the Trinity
    - 447. The constitution of a religion has a threefold structure . . .
    - 448. On the Trinity. Consider what is involved . . .
    - 449. How is the Christian understanding of God as triune properly interpreted?...
    - 450. The divine action whereby God is ad intra triune is the same divine action whereby . . .
    - 451. In The Point of Christology, I argued that it is "characteristic of theistic religions that they . . .
    - 452. What is the difference between the Son and the Holy Spirit, considered economically?
    - 453. In what sense is God the primal source of authority?
    - 454. Concerning the Trinity
    - 455. Isn't there a difference between "the meaning of God for us," on the one hand . . .
    - 456. Some Thoughts on the External Works of the Trinity
    - 457. What is really at stake in the trinitarian-unitarian controversy?
    - 458. "The word and he who utters it cannot be the same person
    - 459. On the Interplay of Original and Decisive Revelation
    - 460. On the Trinity
    - 461. How much could one make of the claim that, even as for the Greeks, what is decisive . . .
  - Section 13: Who is Jesus? 462-534
    - 462. Who is Jesus?
    - 463. On Jesus as Decisively Re-presenting God
    - 464. On Remembering Jesus
    - 465. On the Distinction between "Asserting" and "Assuming"
    - 466. What is the shortest answer to the question, Who is the existential-historical Jesus?
    - 467. On the "Obedience" of Christ and of Christians
    - 468. Although it is solely the Jesus attested as the Christ in the earliest traditions . . .
    - 469. Who Is Jesus?
    - 470. On the Concept of "Implied Author"
    - 471. What do I mean, exactly, by "the existential-historical Jesus"?
    - 472. I argued some time ago that "one must be careful not to mislocate the 'objective' . . .
    - 473. Another short answer to the question, Who is the existential-historical Jesus?
    - 474. The distinction between the empirical-historical Jesus and the existential-historical . . .
    - 475. Who is the Jesus who is said to be Christ?
    - 476. Which Jesus?*
    - 477. Why did Jesus become the one proclaimed?
    - 478. What did Jesus want?
    - 479. Who is the Jesus who is said to be Christ?
    - 480. Luther writes "The pope is not a vicar of Christ in heaven . . .
    - 481. Who is Jesus? Jesus is...
    - 482. Who is Jesus Christ?
    - 483. According to the Jesus-kerygma, as Marxsen interprets it
    - 484. Is Jesus Christ available only in the Christian witness?
    - 485. Is it true that Jesus is to be encountered only through the kerygma?
    - 486. Another term for "explicit primal ontic source of authority" is "decisive re-presentation."
    - 487. The Christian confession implies the assertion classically formulated as "Jesus is the Christ"
    - 488. Confusing and confused as it seems to me to be, Knox's whole discussion of the church's memory . . .
    - 489. In interpreting the disagreements between Calvin and Bullinger . . .
    - 490. So far as the New Testament witnesses are concerned . . .
    - 491. There is a distinction between Jesus-in-his-being-in-himself and Jesus in-his-meaning-for-us
    - 492. Knox suggests (in The Early Church and the Coming Great Church: 74) that "the true way to ask the christological question,"...
    - 493. For some time now, I've been bothered by the way I expressed myself in a passage from . . .
    - 494. The distinction between Jesus-in-his-being-in-himself and . . .
    - 495. Why is it true, if it's true, that Jesus is the decisive re-presentation of God?
    - 496. All christological formulations, explicit and also implicit, more or less adequately formulate ...
    - 497. Christology in the strict sense consists, in part, in historical, albeit existential-historical, statements . . .
    - 498. Every different christological predicate serves to make one and the same christological assertion
    - 499. On "Truth".
    - 500. There is good reason to believe that the earliest explicit christology, making use of Jewish concepts . . .
    - 501. According to the usual account emerging from historical-critical study, there was a development in christology . . .
    - 502. In some of my more important papers in christology, I have distinguished between more "mythological" and . . .
    - 503. There is agreement that Easter meant, in effect, that "the once" became "the once-for-all"
    - 504. On "Special Revelation"
    - 505. Why can't the kerygma ever simply take Jesus' place?
    - 506. What significance is there to the fact that Jesus appeared as prophet and teacher?
    - 507. According to Bultmann, all christological concepts-terms . . .
    - 508. Further Reflections on Christology
    - 509. For Paul, as Bultmann puts it, the cross is God's judgment . . .
    - 510. On the usual revisionary paradigm . . .
    - 511. What is the significance of the event of Jesus Christ?
    - 512. Do--or can--we know the apostles, and, if so, how?
    - 513. On the whole question of the assumptions . . .
    - 514. In what sense is "the point of christology" an existential point?
    - 515. According to Bultmann's interpretation . . .
    - 516. It is very important to stress the purely formal character of explicit christology . . .
    - 517. Why can't Christian witness be legitimated by appealing to the empirical-historical Jesus?
    - 518. I argued in Christ without Myth . . .
    - 519. In Christ without Myth, I took a position . . .
    - 520. To what extent is "the memory, preserved at a few points in the New Testament . . .
    - 521. The apostolic witness is constituted explicitly . . .
    - 522. I have argued, following Luther, that "Christ is, first of all, a 'sacrament' . . .
    - 523. It's clear to me now that the last paragraph on p. 7 below very much needs to be rewritten and expanded . . .
    - 524. I find it hard not to think of christology when I read the concluding paragraphs of Utley's Custer . . .
    - 525. E. P. Sanders uses the term, lithe viceroy of God's kingdom," to interpret the early Christian community's . . .
    - 526. I am struck by Sanders' observation that the authors of the gospels "intended people to turn to Jesus...
    - 527. What is the real difference between Jesus and the early church (or Paul)?
    - 528. I've suddenly realized that I've missed an important part . . .
    - 529. Reflection on the Epigraph from Luther
    - 530. What Is "Incarnation"?
    - 531. The subject of the christological assertion is usually held . . .
    - 532. OBITER SCRIPTA ON CHRISTOLOGY
    - 534. More Obiter Dicta on Christology
    - 534. Reflections on Lutheran orthodox christology . . .
  - Section 14: On A Priori/A Posteriori Christology, 535-552
    - 535. On A Priori/A Posteriori Christology
    - 536. The twofold assertion ...
    - 537. Traditionally, there have been two basic ways ...
    - 538. What is constant in christology, and what is variable?...
    - 539. What is the "objective claim" ...
    - 540. On A Priori Christology
    - 541. It occurs to me that what I am actually doing in my essay, "A Priori Christology and Experience,"...
    - 542. Why is there -- and why must there be -- such a thing as an "a priori or "transcendental" "christology"?...
    - 543. I have thought since writing it that I could have given my argument in "A Priori Christology and Experience"...
    - 544. According to an adequate a priori christology, x can be truly said...
    - 545. Marxsen says, quite rightly, that the criterion for judging "Christian" talk of God...
    - 546. On "immanence" as an Analogical Concept and the Incarnation...
    - 547. On saying that the same thing both constitutes and is constituted by...
    - 548. On the Concept of Re-presenting the Possibility of Authentic Existence...
    - 549. Is the constitutive christological assertion a metaphysical assertion?...
    - 550. What does it mean to ask about the point of an assertion?...
    - 551. According to Geertz's analysis, a religion always includes both a metaphysics...
    - 552. I see more clearly now than before that my issue -- or, at any rate, one of my major issues-with the usual...
      - 553. How, exactly, if at all, does "process philosophy" provide a new resource for the christological reflection...
        
        554. I ought not to confuse the "in principle" part of systematic theology's question about formally normative witness...
  - Section 15: Christology: Miscellaneous, 555-576
    - 555. According to Bultmann, the apostolic word, like the apostles themselves, . . .
    - 556. How do I understand the history of the quest of the historical Jesus?
    - 557. My understanding is that the theme of your discussions...
    - 558. To ask about the meaning of Jesus for us here and now...
    - 559. Faith and History Theses Preparatory to a Theological Discussion
    - 560. What does it mean to say that the search for the historical Jesus is neither historically possible nor religiously or theologically...
    - 561. One of the most secure conclusions of historical-critical study...
    - 562. What are the different logically possible answers to the question, "Do you have any reasons to assert or deny p?
    - 563. In The Point of Christology, I say that the usual account today...
    - 564. What are the sources for inquiring historically about Jesus?
    - 565. What do we learn from the earliest stratum of Christian witness?
      - 566. On Criteria for Distinguishing Authentic Jesus-Material
    - 567. Marxsen allows that particular Jesus-pictures...
    - 568. How Jesus interpreted the Hebrew Scriptures
    - 569. Even if material attributed to Jesus in the Jesus traditions...
    - 570. Jesus appeared as, above all, an eschatological prophet, a proclaimer of the imminent reign or rule of God...
    - 571. Throughout its history revisionary Christian theology...
    - 572. The issues I have with Funk's "The Incredible Creed" ...
    - 573. Pamela Eisenbaum had this to say...
    - 574. Christology for Evangelism...
    - 575. Jesus was executed as a type of political criminal...
    - 576. Ellis Rivkin, What Crucified Jesus?
  - Section 16: On the particula exclusiva, 577-586
    - 577. Concerning the particula exclusiva...
    - 578. According to certain analyses, we may use causal language...
    - 579. Sola Scriptura, Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide...
    - 580. More on the "particula exclusiva"...
    - 581. Like any other philosophy properly so-called, process philosophy is a more or less reflective...
    - 582. There are indications that, for a time, at least, there was some uncertainty about whether...
    - 583. In what sense, if any, can I say that my act of meeting the needs of my neighbor...
    - 584. Can one rightly say that, just as it is God alone ...
    - 585. Can one rightly say that, just ...
    - 586. The issue that Christian faith resolves is not whether life has an ultimate meaning...
  - Section 17: On the Church and the Means of Salvation, 587-618
    - 587. De Ecclesia. "Being it ...
    - 588. What significance, if any, is there ...
    - 589. In discussing the efficacy as well as the validity...
    - 590. Wherein lies the unity of the church?
    - 591. John Knox distinguishes between the "deeper,"...
    - 592. On Knox's Analysis of the Church
    - 593. I find it interesting that John Knox, in his way...
    - 594. On the Ministry
    - 595. According to Lumen Gentium...
    - 596. What do I mean when I distinguish between...
    - 597. What about the slogan, "Let the church be the church!"
    - 598. On Church Membership...
    - 599. It seems clear that the call ...
    - 600. The call to be a Christian and thus...
    - 601. If Bultmann can say simply that "Jesus Christus...
    - 602. According to J. W. Baier, "Finis ... scriptura ultimus est salus nostra...
    - 603. In an earlier reflection (Notebooks, 10 December 2007)...
    - 604. I have misled -- and been misled...
    - 605. On Efficacy as Distinct from Validity and Effectiveness
      - 606. On Validity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness
    - 607. The specifically Christian means of salvation in no way confine the salvation...
    - 608. Is a sacrament effective only when it is received with faith?
    - 609. Means of salvation at once
    - 610. If Marxsen is essentially correct...
    - 611. The sacraments of the church, like any other representative form of Christian...
    - 612. I have explained for years that to represent is to re-present...
    - 613. It belongs to the idea of a sacrament that it not only conveys grace...
    - 614. It now seems clear to me that the distinction between being a sacrament...
    - 615. Have I defined my obligations as a member of the church too one-sidedly?
    - 616. In earlier writings, I take "the communion of saints" referred to in the third article of the Apostles'...
    - 617. Yet another interesting indication in Paul's witness that Jesus Christ himself...
    - 618. An interesting instance of the...
  - Section 18: What Does It Mean to Be a Christian? 619-661
    - 619. What does it mean to be a Christian?
    - 620. Who is a Christian?
    - 621. What makes me a Christian?
    - 622. To be a Christian is to be called to bear a valid witness to Christ . . .
    - 623. A Christian in the strict and proper sense ...
    - 624. What is "the Christian proprium" in the sense of "what alone makes anything properly Christian"?
    - 625. On Faith, Hope, and Love
    - 626. What is the logic of Christian belief?
    - 627. On "Calling" and "Office"
    - 628. If Christian faith itself is a medium salutis...
    - 629. Whether a witness is explicitly religious is one question, whether it is explicitly Christian...
    - 630. What is it to exist eschatologically?
    - 631. Among the ways in which Marxsen talks about" Jesus' working," ...
    - 632. Assertions of Faith and Actions
    - 633. No belief, not even a true belief, is a necessary condition...
    - 634. Could it be that the concepts of "praxis" and "witness" are not simply interchangeable?
    - 635. What Is Faith?
    - 636. Love involves the two moments of sympathy and service...
    - 637. On Loving and Being Loved.
    - 638. On Loving and Being Loved. If what it means...
    - 639. Christian Witness
    - 640. From a Christian standpoint, or in Christian terms...
    - 641. What is distinctive about one's call as a Christian?
    - 642. The decisive call re-presents the implicit call...
    - 643. On the Offices of Minister and Theologian
    - 644. Bearing Witness as a Form of Christian Life-Praxis
    - 645. On "Witness" and "Tradition"
    - 646. On "Tradition"
    - 647. The fact that the same language is used...
    - 648. On the Christian Teacher
    - 649. Ten Theses on Christian Education
    - 650. Just as being called to be a Christian is special . . .
    - 651. For what, from a Christian standpoint, are individuals to be free?
    - 652. What is a Christian to say about the conservative idea of private virtues?
    - 653. According to Bultmann, "theology does not 'teach'...
    - 654. I realize now that I was mistaken in my earlier answer to the question, What is evangelism?
    - 655. What is evangelism?
    - 656. Christians affirm that we are saved by God through the Christ-event...
    - 657. Couldn't one reasonably argue that the differences between a monistic inclusivism...
    - 658. If one lives decisively through Jesus, one lives authentically...
    - 659. Questions of Faith and Practice
    - 660. What is faith? How do we find it?
    - 661. Does Prayer Change the Weather?
  - Section 19: On Implicit Christianity, 662-673
    - 662. There is no basis, arguably, for speaking of an implicit Christian faith...
    - 663. The particular necessarily implies the universal.
    - 664. Granted that the relatively more concrete or particular necessarily presupposes...
    - 665. On the mysteria stricte dicta
    - 666. In an earlier attempt to clarify two distinct senses...
    - 667. I have pressed the question, whether Christians ...
    - 668. It appeared to me for a time that there can be a third sense in which a given person or witness ...
    - 669. That there are at least two distinct senses in which the term "implicitly Christian" ...
    - 670. According to Gamwell, "the argumentative assessment of religious claims is incomplete without ...
    - 671. In my Notebooks, 15 June 2000, I say that ...
    - 672. There is, or certainly appears to be, a necessary connection between...
    - 673. The record shows, I fear, that I have not consistently said the same thing ...
  - Section 20: On the Systematic Ambiguity of Bearing Witness, 674-696
    - 674. It is one question whether what a person says and does is a consequence of saving faith ...
    - 675. My taking something to be revelation doesn't make it revelation, even though . . .
    - 676. I have argued that "taking something to be revelation actually involves a double ...
    - 677. I argued some time ago that "one must be careful not to mislocate the 'objective' component ...
    - 678. There is a problem with Knox's statement that "only in the experience of those who receive...
    - 679. According to Bultmann, the apostolic word, like the apostles themselves, belongs to the salvation ...
    - 680. There is little doubt that "the particular historical experience" that I take to be required in order...
    - 681. Whether or not X so experiences Y that Y becomes a revelation or act of God for X depends ...
    - 682. It occurs to me that my distinction between "the Jesus of history as a fact of the past," ...
    - 683. As I understand Luther's christological reflections, there is a distinction to be made between res ...
    - 684. Marxsen and others are clearly right in holding that Christian faith originates in the apostles' ...
    - 685. Bultmann distinguishes variously between ...
    - 686. According to Bultmann, "[t]he one reality [sc. of history, or of the history of the past] ...
    - 687. Existential-historical statements have as much to do with history ...
    - 688. The roughly synonymous terms, "the historical Jesus," "the Jesus of history," "the actual Jesus ...
    - 689. On Jesus as a Sign. Schutz says, convincingly, that, "in interpreting a sign it is not necessary to refer...
    - 690. Another good example of how experience of a certain event or person can be existentially...
    - 691. Another example of a significant event is the following . . .
    - 692. What is the relation, exactly, between the ontic and the noetic ...
    - 693. I wonder whether the relation between the ontic and noetic aspects of an explicit source of authority...
    - 694. X can be credibly (or truly) said to be the ontic pole ...
    - 695. If the truth about human existence that I as a Christian take to be decisively re-presented...
    - 696. One cannot infer from what someone does that she or he is a Christian
  - Section 21: On the Indicative/Imperative Distinction, 697-708
    - 697. One commonly speaks of "the indicative-imperative of Christian faith" ...
    - 698. Factum et Faciendum.
    - 699. Whatever may have been the case with Jesus' own proclamationand, and surely, the most plausible...
    - 700. Christian proclamation as such, as the direct form of Christian witness that is distinct from the indirect . . .
    - 701. Imperatives that demand a specific, concrete action...
    - 702. The two distinctions between God's gift and demand ...
    - 703. On the Gift and Demand of God's Love
    - 704. If I understand him correctly, Bultmann holds that the "what" ...
    - 705. God wills that the law be fulfilled, demanding that a human being exist in faith in God ...
    - 706. What does God give, and what does God demand?
    - 707. In the Christian understanding of creation, God gives human beings their being as creatures by making ...
    - 708. Is it correct to say, as I have said, that "'law' and 'gospel' ...
  - Section 22: The Contribution of Christian Faith to the Struggle for Social Justice, 709-711
    - 709. What is the contribution of Christian faith to the struggle for social justice?
    - 710. Galbraith argues that "[t]his is not the age of doctrine it is the age of practical judgment ...
    - 711. On a Coalition of the Poor and the Concerned
  - Section 23: Corrigenda et Retractiones—Miscellanous, 712-725
    - 712. Corrigenda et Retractationes
    - 713. Second Thoughts on The Point of Christology ...
    - 714. Second Thoughts on On Theology ...
    - 715. I note with some interest that, in my essay, "The Promise of Faith," ...
    - 716. Peter Berger speaks suggestively about ...
    - 717. Gerrish is much too uncritical in accepting ...
    - 718. Can there be any rational justification for the faith ...
    - 719. What Frei evidently means by ...
    - 720. One of the difficulties with Frei's characterization ...
    - 721. Schleiermacher on the Difference between Protestantism and Catholicism
    - 722. The more I think about it, the more Schleiermacher's understanding of religion as "feeling" ...
    - 723. Schleiermacher's concept of a"positive science," ...
    - 724. What Habermas calls "communicative action" ...
    - 725. I ought never to forget that the whole apparatus . . .
  - Section 24: Rudolf Bultmann, 726-879
    - 726. Bultmann's formulations require to be improved ...
    - 727. According to Bultmann, among other ways in . . .
    - 728. I have argued ...
    - 729. I once criticized ...
    - 730. In interpreting Bultmann ...
    - 731. I've often had occasion ...
    - 732. Bultmann speaks of Jesus ...
    - 733. The relevant (or, at any rate, less misleading) distinction...
    - 734. Bultmann's point in distinguishing between ...
    - 735. Bultmann argues that revelation's being an event ...
    - 736. I suddenly realized, while rereading Bultmann's essay ...
    - 737. Bultmann argues that all the christological titles ...
    - 738. "Faith and unfaith," Bultmann argues ...
    - 739. That Bultmann can and does speak of Jesus ...
    - 740. The best single passage I know for clarifying ...
    - 741. Some Reflections upon Rereading Jesus
    - 742. It has become ever clearer ...
    - 743. On Bultmann's interpretation, the Johannine representation ...
    - 744. Bultmann says in one place that ...
    - 745. According to Bultmann's account in "Neues Testament und Mythologie" ...
    - 746. On Bultmann's Essential Point
    - 747. What makes the proclamation of Paul gospel ...
    - 748. "Existentialist" (existential) is to "existential" ...
    - 749.I find the convergence between Bultmann's view ...
    - 750. I've suddenly realized that something . . .
    - 751. Could it be that Bultmann's reason ...
    - 752. Assuming that Luther's interpretation of Paul ...
    - 753. According to Bultmann, Paul's thought ...
    - 754. What Bultmann means by "radical obedience" ...
    - 755. In trying to bring out the distinctiveness ...
    - 756. Bultmann's Jesus is not kerygma ...
    - 757. Unless I'm mistaken, Bultmann's discussion of the question ...
    - 758. What does Bultmann mean by "fleeing ...
    - 759. I find it significant ...
    - 760. Bultmann distinguishes between the law ...
    - 762. When Bultmann makes everything turn on ...
    - 763. It seems ever clearer to me ...
    - 764. There would appear to be at least three distinguishable ...
    - 765. How faithfully Bultmann follows Luther ...
    - 766. Clearly, Bultmann is open in principle ...
    - 767. Speaking of the understanding of existence ...
    - 768. Myth, according to Bultmann ...
    - 769. I have been struck again and again ...
    - 770. Unless I'm mistaken, when Bultmann talks ...
    - 771. On Self-understanding
    - 772. Why is it that Bultmann singles out ...
    - 773. According to Bultmann, a human being ...
    - 774. Bultmann's explanation of why theology ...
    - 775. When Bultmann says—in his discussion with Karl Jaspers . . .
    - 776. Bultmann allows, in replying to Karl Barth ...
    - 777. From some of his discussions ...
    - 778. Bultmann is not only clear ...
    - 779. That Bultmann understands existentialist philosophy ...
    - 780. If Bultmann is right ...
    - 781. At one point Bultmann summarizes ...
    - 782. It seems clear that all ...
    - 783. What does Bultmann understand by "a timeless truth ..."
    - 784. What is involved in saying of philosophy ...
    - 785. Speaking of theological knowledge ...
    - 786. For all of his many criticisms ...
    - 787. Bultmann's several discussions ...
    - 788. It is striking that ...
    - 789. Faith means at once ...
    - 790. Bultmann speaks both of "existentialist analysis" and ...
    - 791. At the heart of Bultmann's response ...
    - 792. One of the few places ...
    - 793. The parallels between Wesley ...
    - 794. What, for Bultmann, is "philosophy itself"?
    - 795. The existentialist thinking of philosophy ...
    - 796. It seems clear enough ...
    - 797. To say, as Bultmann does, that "the 'right' philosophy," ...
    - 798. When Bultmann says ... that 'reality' ...
    - 799. Some of Bultmann's arguments ...
    - 800. I've only recently become aware . . .
    - 801. Whatever differences there may be between them ...
    - 802. That Bultmann understands "self-understanding" ...
    - 803. That and how Bultmann's theology is indeed open ...
    - 804. It seems clear to me from many ...
    - 805. Note the distinction Bultmann ...
    - 806. If any passage makes clear ...
    - 807. I now realize that ...
    - 808. Couldn't one argue that Bultmann's early sermon ...
    - 809. According to Bultmann, Jesus' call ...
    - 810. Although I see no reason to doubt ...
    - 811. If one asks what is really the primary authority ...
    - 812. Christology, according to Bultmann ...
    - 813. What Bultmann means, and does not mean ...
    - 814. I need to think further about the distinctions ...
    - 815. According to Bultmann, "there is one estimate ...
    - 816. Is Jesus' reduction of the commandments ...
    - 817. According to Bultmann, "das Eigentümliche ...
    - 818. For Bultmann, the change ...
    - 819. It seems clear that explicating ...
    - 820. Why does Bultmann argue that "sin" ...
    - 821. If Bultmann can say, in a short formula ...
    - 822. When Bultmann speaks of "the 'nevertheless' ...
    - 823. What existentialist interpretation means ...
    - 824. Bultmann points out in one place ...
    - 825. If there is a classic brief . . .
    - 826. Bultmann characteristically stresses ...
    - 827. Study of his writings confirms ...
    - 828. It seems clear ...
    - 829. If Bultmann's most extended discussion ...
    - 830. If it is correct to say ...
    - 832. My guess is that ...
    - 833. According to Bultmann, faith ...
    - 834. Bultmann claims that "a human ...
    - 835. Bultmann believed himself entitled ...
    - 836. Bultmann says that "the paradox ...
    - 837. Formally, Bultmann's insistence ...
    - 838. Concerning Bultmann's interpretation of Romans 7
    - 839. In his essay, "Das Problem ...
    - 840. According to Bultmann, "the question ...
    - 841. Bultmann speaks of "existentially grounded exegesis" ...
    - 842. Concerning the life-relation ...
    - 843. How, according to Bultmann ...
    - 844. Understanding and Faith
    - 845. According to Bultmann, understanding ...
    - 846. Bultmann argues that it is clear ...
    - 847. That Bultmann intends no simple ...
    - 848. Bultmann's understanding of theology ...
    - 849. In re-reading Bultmann's essays ...
    - 850. On Bultmann's View of Western History
    - 851. If human existence is "uncanny" ...
    - 852. In Bultmann's view, as Fergusson ...
    - 853. For Bultmann, as much as for Marxsen ...
    - 854. I am struck by the clear convergence ...
    - 855. There is at least one place ...
    - 856. On the face of it ...
    - 857. It's simply false ...
    - 858. There are clearly many ...
    - 859. If my understanding ...
    - 860a. Bultmann's statements to the effect that . . .
    - 860b. One can argue historically . . .
    - 861. Whether or not Jesus ...
    - 862. Bultmann's statement that ...
    - 863. The different things ...
    - 864. In their book ...
    - 865. "... in fact, the need for acceptance ...
    - 866. The only thing that ...
    - 867. Why do human beings yearn for security?
    - 868. According to Bultmann, "to believe ...
    - 869. Why does Bultmann say ...
    - 870. How can one's fate ...
    - 871. On Bultmann's Treatment of God as Creator
    - 872. In some of the things he says ...
    - 873. On Bultmann' s argument in "Christus des Gesetzes Ende" ...
    - 874. Note how what Bultmann says ...
    - 875. We do not look back to the birth of Christ . . .
    - 876. Bultmann on Jesus as the "Legitimation" of Kerygma
    - 877. Addendum to "Theology for Freedom and Responsibility"
    - 878. Bultmann argues that, in showing ...
    - 879. According to Grass . . .
  - Section 25: Charles Hartshorne, 880-1039
    - 880. Hartshorne talks about . . .
    - 881. "Concreteness is what makes...
    - 882. Hartshorne argues that the infallibility...
    - 883. That experiences have qualities...
    - 884. Note how Hartshorne in effect...
    - 885. The concept-term "God" . . .
    - 886. Hartshorne commonly speaks of God . . .
    - 887. I agree with Hartshorne . . .
    - 888. Hartshorne says, "Psychicalism is true...
    - 889. I find it interesting that Hartshorne can use "individual"...
    - 890. I entirely agree with Hartshorne that...
    - 891. Inheritance is evidently a cultural...
    - 892. If Hartshorne is right...
    - 893. I find it significant that...
    - 894. It has become increasingly clear to me . . .
    - 895. What is my real issue with Hartshorne and Whitehead?
    - 896. Hartshorne says "Physical phenomena...
    - 897. Hartshorne allows, significantly...
    - 898. "Necessarily, experience occurs"...
    - 899. The rules relating concepts to reality...
    - 900. In discussing Peirce's "logic of relatives" . . .
    - 901. Hartshorne argues . . .
    - 902. Hartshorne claims that, when Charles Wesley wrote . . .
    - 903. Hartshorne argues in one place . . .
    - 904. Hartshorne talks of "God's own abstractive process" . . .
    - 905. Crucial as it is to insist . . .
    - 906. Hartshorne says "When one has come . . .
    - 907. "The basic participial adjective" . . .
    - 908. Hartshorne asks, What makes becoming . . .
    - 909. Hartshorne's argument for freedom . . .
    - 910. Hartshorne argues that psychicalism . . .
    - 911. Hartshorne says, "The proper metaphysical question . . .
    - 912. Hartshorne argues . . .
    - 913. Hartshorne is clearly not above . . .
    - 914. I take sharp exception to Hartshorne's . . .
    - 915. I find it fascinating that Hartshorne . . .
    - 916. Hartshorne seems to reason here . . .
    - 917. Hartshorne allows that "infinitely flexible love . . .
    - 918. John Hick's talk of religions as . . .
    - 919. I sharply disagree with Hartshorne's . . .
    - 920. Hartshorne is doubtless right that . . .
    - 921. Any rational religion, arguably . . .
    - 922. Always we and other animals . . .
    - 923. Hartshorne evidently tries . . .
    - 924. The religious and philosophical significance of freedom . . .
    - 925. Hartshorne says "All individuals . . .
    - 926. That Hartshorne is really of two minds . . .
    - 927. I find it significant that Hartshorne . . .
    - 928. Perhaps, in part, because . . .
    - 929. Elsewhere I have characterized "the distinctive . . .
    - 930. Reading notes on Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method
    - 931. Hartshorne speaks variously . . .
    - 932. Hartshorne says that "value is . . .
    - 933. Hartshorne argues that "the whole . . .
    - 934. Unless I'm mistaken, Hartshorne's statement . . .
    - 935. Hartshorne distinguishes between "monadic . . .
    - 936. Hartshorne often speaks of "ideas" . . .
    - 937. Question: Doesn't Heidegger's . . .
    - 938. Just as Hartshorne speaks of "atheism" . . .
    - 939. I find it interesting that Hartshorne . . .
    - 940. Hartshorne says, "Creativity is not identical . . .
    - 941. Hartshorne says "Subjects are . . .
    - 942. Either "nothing" is used in its ordinary sense . . .
    - 943. To think of anything at all . . .
    - 944. In a context in which he is discussing . . .
    - 945. Hartshorne speaks of "the necessary aspect of deity" . . .
    - 946. I find Hartshorne's discussion of "the role of faith" . . .
    - 947. What is it to be a Platonist?
    - 948. Hartshorne holds—as he says . . .
    - 949. I find it interesting that, in at least one passage . . .
    - 950. Hartshorne says that metaphysics concerns . . .
    - 951. One could argue, it seems to me . . .
    - 952. Some have said that the metaphysical question . . .
    - 953. It seems clear from Hartshorne's discussion . . .
    - 954. When Hartshorne speaks of "reason in general" . . .
    - 955. In the final analysis, Hartshorne fails . . .
    - 956. What is to be understood by . . .
    - 957. Hartshorne distinguishes between "the pure . . .
    - 958. Hartshorne may be right that the meaning . . .
    - 959. Hartshorne argues that "the bare idea of God" . . .
    - 960. What Hartshorne calls "the central religious issue . . .
    - 961. When Hartshorne allows that . . .
    - 962. I quite fail to see how . . .
    - 963. That God is "modally all-inclusive" . . .
    - 964. To talk of creativity producing things . .
    - 965. That there is indeed evidence . . .
    - 966. What, I ask, is the more than merely verbal . . .
    - 967. Hartshorne says, rightly, that "what is inherent . . .
    - 968. That Hartshorne has, in fact . . .
    - 969. Clearly, if that which is "eternally real" . . .
    - 970. According to Hartshorne, the "ideas which . . .
    - 971. Hartshorne asks, "What are we to conclude . . .
    - 972. If, as I should argue, the categorial . . .
    - 973. Hartshorne's claim that we have "a direct experience of God" . . .
    - 974. It is false to say, as Hartshorne does . . .
    - 975. Hartshorne speaks of "our sense of the individual . . .
    - 976. Hartshorne speaks of God in different places . . .
    - 977. That creativity is given and definitely . . .
    - 978. I agree with Hartshorne that "the whole . . .
    - 979. Characteristic of Hartshorne's discussions . . .
    - 980. One can hardly fail to be struck . . .
    - 981. Throughout his writings . . .
    - 982. Hartshorne argues that "philosophy's . . .
    - 983. Compare the following statements
    - 984. If, as Hartshorne holds, logic and ethics . . .
    - 985. Hartshorne argues that "to refuse . . .
    - 986. In Hartshorne's view, "religion . . .
    - 987. Significantly, Hartshorne himself allows . . .
    - 988. There are passages in which Hartshorne expresses . . .
    - 989. If there is "no way to distinguish . . .
    - 990. What, fully thought out, is the import . . .
    - 991. What Hartshorne calls in some places . . .
    - 992. According to Hartshorne, "the model . . .
    - 993. Hartshorne expressly confirms in one place . . .
    - 994. What is it to eschew nominalism for realism?
    - 995. Miscellaneous Critical Comments on The Logic of Perfection
    - 996. Modern science has achieved . . .
    - 997. Hartshorne holds that "prehending . . .
    - 998. Hartshorne argues that "the primitive . . .
    - 999. Hartshorne argues that American philosophy . . .
    - 1000. On the Place of Concepts in Knowledge
    - 1001. Hartshorne agrees with Wittgenstein . . .
    - 1002. What are "the ends of nature," its "over-all goals"?
    - 1003. Hartshorne argues that "nothing is one of two things . . .
    - 1004. Hartshorne holds—understandably . . .
    - 1005. Although Hartshorne naturally allows . . .
    - 1006. Speaking of his "favorite arguments for belief . . .
    - 1007. Hartshorne's appeal to Whitehead's . . .
    - 1008. Hartshorne argues that "the uniquely excellent . . .
    - 1009. On "Logical" in a Broad Sense
    - 1010. There clearly seems to be something . . .
    - 1011. What is the basic objective of God's action?
    - 1012. In one and the same essay . . .
    - 1013. What is meant, exactly, by "the social structure of experience"?
    - 1014. In reading "The Formal Validity . . .
    - 1015. Hartshorne speaks in different contexts . . .
    - 1016. Some of the participial adjectives . . .
    - 1017. At one point, Hartshorne offers the following equivalences . . .
    - 1018. One of the things that Hartshorne . . .
    - 1019. When Hartshorne talks about . . .
    - 1020. What does the psychicalist hold?
    - 1021. Why is it the case . . .
    - 1022. Hartshorne typically reasons . . .
    - 1023. What is our human prerogative?
    - 1024. Hartshorne speaks of "particular instances . . .
    - 1025. I am convinced that Hartshorne's appeal . . .
    - 1026. Hartshorne says of Radhakrishnan's concept . . .
    - 1027. Hartshorne's talk of . . .
    - 1028. What unites human beings . . .
    - 1029. Significantly, Hartshorne can evidently . . .
    - 1030. According to Hartshorne, a metaphysics is . . .
    - 1031. According to Hartshorne, a transcendental . . .
    - 1032. How confused—and confusing . . .
    - 1033. Significantly, Hartshorne's discussion of analogy . . .
    - 1034. Isn't what Hartshorne means . . .
    - 1035. According to Hartshorne, 'the true empiricism . . .
    - 1036. There is, on the face of it, a contradiction . . .
    - 1037. What is the only essential reward of virtue?
    - 1038. It's entirely clear that what Hartshorne . . .
    - 1039. According to Hartshorne . . .
  - Section 26: Martin Luther, 1040-1084
    - 1040. According to Gogarten . . .
    - 1041. To Say As Luther does . . .
    - 1042. Luther's Teaching that Christ . . .
    - 1043. Gerrish Argues . . .
    - 1044. Luther on the General Knowledge of God
    - 1045. Everyone Is familiar . . .
    - 1046. Hypothesis for my further study of Luther
    - 1047. I fear I have not thought out . . .
    - 1048. Somewhere, if only I could find it . . .
    - 1049. Gerrish points out
    - 1050. A Note to Myself
    - 1051. In rereading what Gogarten . . .
    - 1052. What is "the bondage of the will"?
    - 1053. The idea that plural sacraments . . .
    - 1054. It seems ever clearer . . .
    - 1055. If Luther can speak . . .
    - 1056. Luther argues . . .
    - 1057. Nobody in Christendom . . .
    - 1058. I really resonate . . .
    - 1059. I have long had . . .
    - 1060. Luther on the "Double Knowledge of God"
    - 1061. Luther says "It is not baptism . . .
    - 1062. It seems clear that Luther . . .
    - 1063. If there are places . . .
    - 1064. Significantly, no other than Martin Luther . . .
    - 1065. Luther on the "Touchstone"
    - 1066. On Luther's account . . .
    - 1067. Luther begins his Preface . . .
    - 1068. I find It significant . . .
    - 1069. I have finally realized . . .
    - 1070. I find a striking convergence . . .
    - 1071. Nothing is clearer in Luther's teaching . . .
    - 1072. I find it Interesting that Luther . . .
    - 1073. Luther argues in his commentary on Galatians . . .
    - 1074. It would appear that . . .
    - 1075. Luther On Authority
    - 1076. Luther On The Ministry
    - 1077. If Luther's analysis of sin . . .
    - 1078. Luther on the "Double Blessing"
    - 1079. Characteristically Luther challenges . . .
    - 1080. Luther argues from the fact . . .
    - 1081. Many passages in Luther's writings . . .
    - 1082. What Luther attributes . . .
    - 1083. According to one of my interpreters . . .
    - 1084. Luther On Sanctification
  - Section 27: Willi Marxsen, 1085-1140
    - 1085. Marxsen is entirely correct . . .
    - 1086. A Key Concept...
    - 1087. Marxsen Distinguishes...
    - 1088. Within only a few pages...
    - 1089. I've objected to a formulation...
    - 1090. Marxsen says, "'Jesus ist auferstanden...
    - 1091. More on Marxsen's Talk about Jesus' Faith
    - 1092. Having reread Marxsen...
    - 1093. The extent to which...
    - 1094. Marxsen has his own way...
    - 1095. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5...
    - 1096. Der Glaube kommt...
    - 1097. There is no exact parallel...
    - 1098. What makes ethics "Christian"...
    - 1099. Contrary to what I thought...
    - 1100. How, according to Marxsen, was Jesus . . .
    - 1101. Paul's Concept of dikaiosyne...
    - 1102. Marxsen recommends that the term ...
    - 1103. Marxsen rightly insists that ...
    - 1104.Twice on the same page ...
    - 1105. In Anfangsprobleme der Christologie ...
    - 1106. As many times as I have read it ...
    - 1107. It occurs to me that Marxsen's ..
    - 1108. Marxsen holds that, unlike both John ...
    - 1109. Whether, or to what extent, christology ...
    - 1110. Two comments on Marxsen's discussion ...
    - 1111. Furnish has rightly pointed out ...
    - 1112. Granted Marxsen's observation that ...
    - 1113. According to Marxsen, Paul the Pharisee ...
    - 1114. Everything that Marxsen says in NTBK ...
    - 1115. What happened through Jesus ...
    - 1116. It seems to me that Bultmann ...
    - 1117. Clearly, Marxsen's distinction between ...
    - 1118. It is clear from what Marxsen ...
    - 1119. Whenever one holds that ...
    - 1120. It is arguable that there is an exact parallel ...
    - 1121. Marxsen asks, To what extent ...
    - 1122. According to Marxsen, what is distinctive ...
    - 1123. In "Jesus Has Many Names" ...
    - 1124. According to Marxsen, the decisive kerygma ...
    - 1125. Marxsen's argument concerning the resurrection ...
    - 1126.On Marxsen And Wesley
    - 1127.On "the Jesus Business" (die Sache Jesu)
    - 1128. Marxsen on What Is, and is Not, "the Jesus Business"
    - 1129. How is Jesus understood ...
    - 1130. One thing that much impressed me ...
    - 1131. If Marxsen Is Right ...
    - 1132. Although neither Marxsen's three public lectures ...
    - 1133. I concluded my essay ...
    - 1134 Marxsen allowed as how ...
    - 1135. An insight that has occurred to me ...
    - 1136. If Marxsen argues that there's no point ...
    - 1137. Marxsen Is Quite Clear ...
    - 1138. The resurrection of Jesus ...
    - 1139. Marxsen rightly distinguishes ...
    - 1140. Marxsen's reasoning, having concluded ...
  - Section 28: Reinhold Niebuhr, 1141-1203
    - 1141. During my latest re-reading of Niebuhr's ...
    - 1142. In his essay 'The Truth in Myths" . . .
    - 1143. Niebuhr says, "The ethic of Jesus ...
    - 1144. On the "in principle/in fact" distinction ...
    - 1145. Reinhold Niebuhr has often been taken to task . . .
    - 1146. Whereas, for Augustine, "the church ...
    - 1147. Niebuhr is fond of formulations ...
    - 1148. Niebuhr asserts that "Hebraic prophetism" . . .
    - 1149. Niebuhr argues that "man can transcend . . .
    - 1150. According to Pope's "Essay on Man" . . .
    - 1151. Reinhold Niebuhr defines "private revelation" . . .
    - 1152. The Law Of Love . . .
    - 1153. Niebuhr makes a statement about revelation . . .
    - 1154. Niebuhr says that "the limitations of nature . . .
    - 1155. What justifies using "politics" . . .
    - 1156. Niebuhr's discussion of "conscience" . . .
    - 1157. Niebuhr speaks again and again . . .
    - 1158. Niebuhr evidently wishes to make two . . .
    - 1159. From at least some of his discussions of it . . .
    - 1160. In Niebuhr's view, the death of the subject . . .
    - 1161. I am aware of at least one place . . .
    - 1162. What Niebuhr has to say about "the most primitive religion" . . .
    - 1163. I find it interesting that Niebuhr again and again appeals to what is "ideally" . . .
    - 1164. Niebuhr expressly recognizes . . .
    - 1165. It's one thing to need God's forgiveness . . .
    - 1166. I find it interesting that Niebuhr . . .
    - 1167. Niebuhr's position on the whole issue . . .
    - 1168. It seems clear that Niebuhr simply . . .
    - 1169. So far as I can see, the significance . . .
    - 1170. Niebuhr speaks at one point of "the dilemma . . .
    - 1171. Niebuhr speaks of our facing "two temptations" . . .
    - 1172. Yet another point where Niebuhr's characteristic . . .
    - 1173. Niebuhr is unambiguous . . .
    - 1174. Niebuhr's position on the whole question of scriptural authority . . .
    - 1175. Niebuhr's disavowal of being . . .
    - 1176. It seems to me that Niebuhr . . .
    - 1177. That Niebuhr commonly operates . . .
    - 1178. On the face of it, Niebuhr . . .
    - 1179. What, according to Niebuhr . . .
    - 1180. For Niebuhr, religion has . . .
    - 1181. What, exactly, does Niebuhr mean...
    - 1182. There is a striking convergence . . .
    - 1183. Niebuhr is obviously sensitive . . .
    - 1184. Again and again, Niebuhr infers . . .
    - 1185. It seems clear that what Niebuhr refers to as "an ideal possibility . . .
    - 1186. It seems clear to me that to love . . .
    - 1187. There are two points at . . .
    - 1188. When Niebuhr talks about love . . .
    - 1189. I am quite clear that . . .
    - 1190. To argue, as Niebuhr again . . .
    - 1191. I am frankly put off . . .
    - 1192. To what extent is Niebuhr's . . .
    - 1193. Niebuhr argues that "pessimistic culture . . .
    - 1194. Another point at which . . .
    - 1195. Niebuhr, In His Way . . .
    - 1196. In what sense is Niebuhr right . . .
    - 1197. Niebuhr on Revelation—With Commentary
    - 1198. Any doubts about the originally . . .
    - 1199. To what extent Niebuhr . . .
    - 1200. According to Niebuhr, Christian faith . . .
    - 1201. To what extent can one . . .
    - 1202. How much Niebuhr's theology . . .
    - 1203. The logic of Niebuhr's argument . . .
  - Section 29: Alfred North Whitehead, 1204-1290
    - 1204. Some thoughts after re-reading . . .
    - 1205. Having so long thought . . .
    - 1206. The convergence at one point . . .
    - 1207. When Whitehead says, "creativity . . .
    - 1208. Whitehead speaks of "the goings-on . . .
    - 1209. According to Whitehead, to give "a general . . .
    - 1210. I see only confusion . . .
    - 1211. Whitehead says, "Philosophy . . .
    - 1212. Shouldn't Whitehead's perceptive comment . . .
    - 1213. According to Whitehead, "Religion claims . . .
    - 1214. Whitehead says "Process is the becoming . . .
    - 1215. We may directly answer . . .
    - 1216. I now realize, after a recent close re-reading . . .
    - 1217.I Find It Interesting
    - 1218. Further confirmation that Whitehead . . .
    - 1219. On Knowledge of So-called Higher Things
    - 1220. Note Whitehead's distinction . . .
    - 1221. Who are "civilized beings"?
    - 1222. Whitehead says, "the essence of power . . .
    - 1223. I am struck by how naturally . . .
    - 1224. Whitehead says, "Everything has some value . . .
    - 1225. There are different terms . . .
    - 1226. It seems clear that what Whitehead means by "theoretical reason" . . .
    - 1227. Is it too far-fetched to see . . .
    - 1228. In Adventures of Ideas . . .
    - 1229. What is Whitehead's answer . . .
    - 1230. There appears to be a genuine convergence . . .
    - 1231. What sense does it make . . .
    - 1232. I take it that Whitehead . . .
    - 1233. The metaphysician is seeking . . .
    - 1234. Although Whitehead is emphatic . . .
    - 1235. To what extent could one argue . . .
    - 1236. According to Whitehead, the useful function . . .
    - 1237. I can say every bit as truly . . .
    - 1238. There are places, certainly . . .
    - 1239. Whitehead appears to hold . . .
    - 1240. Questions
    - 1241. Whitehead's talk of "the mutual immanence . . .
    - 1242. If Whitehead can talk about metaphysics . . .
    - 1243. What is the problem . . .
    - 1244.The Future
    - 1245. Some of Whitehead's statements on philosophical method . . .
    - 1246. The picture one gets . . .
    - 1247. How much Whitehead's basic analysis . . .
    - 1248. There is a striking convergence between Geertz . . .
    - 1249. Whitehead seems to me to have his own way of taking acount . . .
    - 1250. Granted that "speculative philosophy . . .
    - 1251. What is my real quarrel with Whitehead and Hartshorne?
    - 1252. Whitehead is clear in saying that "the primordial . . .
    - 1253. It seems clear enough that Whitehead . . .
    - 1254. Concerning "the oneness of the universe . . .
    - 1255. I note that, in succeeding sentences . . .
    - 1256. Whitehead says that "the useful function of philosophy . . .
    - 1257. Ever since I first read them . . .
    - 1258. There definitely seems to be a connection . . .
    - 1259. Why does Whitehead call what I distinguish as "higher," or "axial," religion, "rational" religion?
    - 1260. Compare the following statements . . .
    - 1261. Creativity
    - 1262. God Is A Creature
    - 1263. If Being a Creature of X . . .
    - 1264. Cobb's Statement that "Creativity" . . .
    - 1265. Whitehead's Distinction . . .
    - 1266. Notwithstanding all the things he says . . .
    - 1267. Bracken evidently assumes . . .
    - 1268. Bracken's criticism of Nishida . . .
    - 1269. When Bracken Says
    - 1270. I Agree
    - 1271. Jorge Nobo
    - 1272. Reflections
    - 1273. On God
    - 1274. Whitehead's Notion
    - 1275. Whitehead's Statement
    - 1276. Great Difficulty
    - 1277. To What Extent
    - 1278. Perishing
    - 1279. Actuality
    - 1280. Macquarrie
    - 1281. Symbolic Reference
    - 1282. That Whitehead
    - 1283. God
    - 1284. According to Hartshorne
    - 1285. Categorial Scheme
    - 1286. Technical Language
    - 1287. Is Philosophy
    - 1288. When Whitehead
    - 1289. Understanding
    - 1290. Process And Reality
  - Section 30: H. Richard Niebuhr, 1291-1307
    - 1291. To live is to have faith in the existence . . .
    - 1292. H. R. Niebuhr distinguishes helpfully . . .
    - 1293. The point is obvious . . .
    - 1294. Reflections on H. R. Niebuhr's "Life is Worth Living"
    - 1295. HRN argues . . .
    - 1296. According to HRN, "the Church . . .
    - 1297. HRN's whole approach evidently . . .
    - 1298. I've often had occasion to note . . .
    - 1299. Negative Forms
    - 1300. HRN speaks, significantly, of the kind . . .
    - 1301. HRN's answers to two important questions
    - 1302. In rereading H. Richard Niebuhr's "Life Is Worth Living" . . .
    - 1303. I am struck by the profound . . .
    - 1304. H. Richard Niebuhr is one theologian . . .
    - 1305. H. Richard Niebuhr, Radical Monotheism . . .
    - 1306. H. R. NIEBUHR ON CHRISTOLOGY
    - 1307. H. R. Niebuhr's way of speaking about God
  - Section 31: Frederick Denison Maurice, 1308-1332
    - 1308. In Maurice's understanding ...
    - 1309. Whether or not Maurice is . . .
    - 1310. Maurice speaks typically . . .
    - 1311. In rereading Maurice's Subscription No Bondage . . .
    - 1312. No doubt my greatest problem . . .
    - 1313. I noted earlier that . . .
    - 1314. One may well ask . . .
    - 1315. It's of the greatest importance . . .
    - 1316. I have been struck by Maurice's arguing . . .
    - 1317. What's at stake in Maurice's so-called Platonism?
    - 1318. I find it interesting that Maurice . . .
    - 1319. When Maurice argues . . .
    - 1320. When Maurice uses such expressions as manly character. . .
    - 1321. One of the important questions . . .
    - 1322. Maurice is right on in what he says about the Creed . . .
    - 1323. I have an ever clearer sense . . .
    - 1324. Christensen makes a very strong case . . .
    - 1325. Christensen may well be right . . .
    - 1326. My view that the question christology answers . . .
    - 1327. It seems clear that Maurice's idea of the trinity . . .
    - 1328. It is one thing to insist on "the uselessness of all forms . . .
    - 1329. One of the striking things about Maurice's writings . . .
    - 1330. Maurice's so-called Platonism is not really that at all
    - 1331. General Reflections
    - 1332.Where do I depart . . .
  - Section 32: What Is Metaphysics?, 1333-1394
    - 1333. If it is true . . .
    - 1334. Epigraph: The many become one . . .
    - 1335. Should the first of the two parts . . .
    - 1336. Perhaps yet another . . .
    - 1337. In thinking about how I might write . . .
    - 1338. I can only wonder . . .
    - 1339. Hartshone speaks . . .
    - 1340. "The concrete more" in concrete things . . .
    - 1341. I should say, using my own terms . . .
    - 1342. Extraordinary ontological abstracts . . .
    - 1343. Whereas "metaphysics in a broad sense" . . .
    - 1344. One has to be careful . . .
    - 1345. What makes the strictly metaphysical . . .
    - 1346. I have been struck by . . .
    - 1347. Wilfrid Sellars distingishes . . .
    - 1348. Metaphysics, in the sense in which I understand it . . .
    - 1349. Metaphysics in the broad sense . . .
    - 1350. Metaphysics is understanding of the necessary . . .
    - 1351. Metaphysical assertions, I've said . . .
    - 1352. Transcendental metaphysics is a happy designation . . .
    - 1353. For a long time now . . .
    - 1354. Is there any place for a "fundamental ontology" . . .
    - 1355. Metaphysics concerns itself with . . .
    - 1356. On seeking necessary truths about existence
    - 1357. On Metaphysics
    - 1358. I have had to rethink . . .
    - 1359. If for anything to be real . . .
    - 1360. Granted that statements themselves . . .
    - 1361. "Mind" in the generic or general sense
    - 1362. An entailed proposition . . .
    - 1363. What is it to be alive?
    - 1364. Necessary truths and contingent facts
    - 1365. Is there any sense . . .
    - 1366. One way of engaging with the world . . .
    - 1367. What reasons do we have . . .
    - 1368. If an ordinary proposition is meaningful . . .
    - 1369. The formulations of metaphysics . . .
    - 1370. Wherein is the essential contradiction . . .
    - 1371. According to W.A. Christian . . .
    - 1372. On analysis and generalization
    - 1373. Categorial metaphysics
    - 1374. Distinguishing subjects of predication
    - 1375. Critical Theory and Revisionary Metaphysics
    - 1376. Factual v. empirical falsification
    - 1377. Bad and good metaphysics
    - 1378. Concerning logicians
    - 1379. Any self-understanding necessarily implies...
    - 1380. Self-understanding in a twofold sense
    - 1381. Empirically falsifiable
    - 1382. On causally responsive propositions
    - 1383. Myth affirms reality
    - 1384. Searching for necessary truths
    - 1385. To anti-foundationalist charges
    - 1386. On Metaphysical Argument
    - 1387. Perhaps it won't do . . .
    - 1388. Consider the following
    - 1389. On relational structure
    - 1390. A connection between Hagerstrom and Whitehead
    - 1391. It is widely held that . . .
    - 1392. Objective reference of metaphysical assertions
    - 1393. Unique certainty of Parmenides
    - 1394. A selective overview of the field
  - Section 33: Creativity, Creative Synthesis, and Concrescence, 1395-1445
    - 1395. Creativity or Concrescence
    - 1396. On the abstract or necessary
    - 1397. Concerning concrete reality
    - 1398. If Hartshorne is right
    - 1399. Explaining "concrete"
    - 1400. A distinction to be made
    - 1401. Necessary is . . .
    - 1402. Abstracts
    - 1403. Two analyses of existence
    - 1404. What is an event?
    - 1405. The inclusive mode of actuality
    - 1406. Distinction between concretes
    - 1407. I can only wonder . . .
    - 1408. Passiones entis convertibiles
    - 1409. According to Danto
    - 1410. The necessity of transcendental argument
    - 1411. Concerning ordinary properties
    - 1412. Concrescence as such
    - 1413.The Production
    - 1414. Concreteness and Abstractness
    - 1415. The Process
    - 1416. Particulars
    - 1417. Whereby
    - 1418. The Determinate
    - 1419. Initial Fact
    - 1420. Adequate
    - 1421. Parallel
    - 1422. Nothing
    - 1423. Nonbeing
    - 1424. Existentials
    - 1425. Any ordinary abstract . . .
    - 1426. The necessary is easily explicated . . .
    - 1427. Events and Transcendentals
    - 1428. Concretes
    - 1429. A Concrete is relative . . .
    - 1430. Events occur . . .
    - 1431. On Transcendental Arguments
    - 1432. Possibility is futurity . . .
    - 1433. Convertible transcendentals . . .
    - 1434. What is at stake . . .
    - 1435. If Convertible transcendentals . . .
    - 1436. The Distinction between "transcendental' and "categorial" . . .
    - 1437. There Are two ultimate dualities . . .
    - 1438. On The Meaning of "Concrete"
    - 1439. What exactly does it mean to be the subject . . .
    - 1440. To be (really, internally) related . . .
    - 1441. On the Logic of the Relative
    - 1442. Abstracts
    - 1443. Outline of Transcendal Metaphysics
    - 1444. "Composite" Concretes
    - 1445. Substance
  - Section 34: On Transcendental Metaphysics, 1446-1465
    - 1446. This is to challenge the point. . .
    - 1447. Heidegger
    - 1448. Documents on Metaphysics
    - 1449. Logical-Type Distinctions
    - 1450. Logical Types (I)
    - 1451. Logical Types (II)
    - 1452. To be real . . .
    - 1453. Transcendental Metaphysics In Outline
    - 1454. Ten Theses
    - 1455. Corrigendum
    - 1456. On incorporating the idea of "concrescence" . . .
    - 1457. Should the first thesis . . .
    - 1458. One of the problems . . .
    - 1459. On Logical-Ontological Type-Distinctions
    - 1460. Questions
    - 1461. Transcendental metaphysics in the strict sense . . .
    - 1462. Question
    - 1463. Could the solution to my problem . . .
    - 1464. On Transcendental Metaphysics
    - 1465. Logical-Ontological Type Differences in Outline: Ten Theses
  - Section 35: Metaphysical Theism, 1466-1485
    - 1466. Theism
    - 1467. The Positivistic Denial of Metaphysics
    - 1468. The Abstract Property of Divinity
    - 1469. In what sense . . .
    - 1470. God simply as existent . . .
    - 1471. Being Itself
    - 1472. Why must there be metaphysical arguments . . .
    - 1473. Defining Characteristics
    - 1474. Every agent and every creator . . .
    - 1475. Hartshorne and the Basic Idea of Creation
    - 1476. An Immediate Perception of God
    - 1477. Theological Problem
    - 1478. Christian faith implies metaphysical beliefs . . .
    - 1479. There two, and only two, senses . . .
    - 1480. God may be defined as . . .
    - 1481. All valid arguments for God's existence . . .
    - 1482. Transcendental Concept of God
    - 1483. God Is a Conscrescence/concrete
    - 1484. To accept the ultimacy of process . . .
    - 1485. On the Relation of Part and Whole
  - Section 36: Intrinsic-Constitutive Value, 1486-1488
    - 1486. On Intrinsic and Constitutive Value
    - 1487. There is a fundamental distinction . . .
    - 1488. The more I've thought about it . . .
  - Section 37: Duns Scotus, C.S. Peirce, and Heinrich Scholz, 1489-1500
    - 1489. In interpreting Duns Scotus . . .
    - 1490. Metaphysics and (Logical) Structure
    - 1491. The Doctrine of Aseity
    - 1492. Copleston and "Being"
    - 1493. Copleston's Interpretation of Scotus
    - 1494. On Re-reading Hartshorne on Peirce
    - 1495. Hartshorne on Peirce's "Logic of Relatives"
    - 1496. Why Are Pierce's Three Categories All Necessary?
    - 1497. Is Peirce right . . .
    - 1498. Firstness is the same as abstractness . . .
    - 1499. C.S. Peirce
    - 1500. Heinrich Scholz and Metaphysics
  - Section 38: On "Logical in a Broad Sense", 1501-1503
    - 1501. Whole Issue of "logic(al) . . .
    - 1502. Possible Worlds
    - 1503. More On
  - Section 39: The Experience of Thought, 1504-1524
    - 1504. Just as experience . . .
    - 1505.Thought Is
    - 1506. Whereas the generalizations of science . . .
    - 1507. To think at all . . .
    - 1508. All thought is about something . . .
    - 1509. It is essential to the distinction . . .
    - 1510. All thought takes place . . .
    - 1511. Reality is what is desclosed . . .
    - 1512. What is properly meant by "reality" . . .
    - 1513. The real, according to William James . . .
    - 1514. Experience is always experience of . . .
    - 1515. Since logic cannot deal with . . .
    - 1516. A transcendental convertible . . .
    - 1517. Hartshorne says, "Universals must have . . .
    - 1518. The past is settled . . .
    - 1519. I have argued that for universals . . .
    - 1520. To think about anything whatever . . .
    - 1521. What is the principle . . .
    - 1522. Any entity . . .
    - 1523. Possibility is futurity . . .
    - 1524. There is an eternal abstract . . .
  - Section 40: Miscellaneous, 1525-1546
    - 1525. Significantly, the only logical-ontological . . .
    - 1526. A necessary condition of anything . . .
    - 1527. Personal identity is a special form . . .
    - 1528. If beauty of all kinds is unity . . .
    - 1529. If by "the abstract" generally . . .
    - 1530. According to Hartshorne, "the principle of process" . . .
    - 1531. I find it interesting . . .
    - 1532. I assume that what Hartshorne . . .
    - 1533. Aristotle's contention against Platonism . . .
    - 1534. In some of my formulations . . .
    - 1535. "Nature" in the sense of natura naturans . . .
    - 1536. Being refers either to what has . . .
    - 1537. Hartshorne speaks of "individuals . . .
    - 1538. The past is that which is the wholly fixed . . .
    - 1539. An unqualified principle of sufficient reason . . .
    - 1540. Problem: If being an abstract . . .
    - 1541. Let realism be the position that there is . . .
    - 1542. I have spoken variously of "ultimate subjects" . . .
    - 1543. Rule: The more abstract something is . . .
    - 1544. Mourad observes, to my mind helpfully . . .
    - 1545. According to Thomas Aquinas, "That which first falls . . .
    - 1546. Some Relevant Polar Contrasts
  - Section 41: Analogy, 1547-1559
    - 1547. The important question about analogy . . .
    - 1548. I wrote some years ago . . .
    - 1549. However exceptional God may be . . .
    - 1550. For medieval thinkers generally, transcendental . . .
    - 1551. On Transcendentals
    - 1552. I need to take particular care in clarifying . . .
    - 1553. I should wish to argue that "analogy" has no place . . .
    - 1554. According to Hartshorne, there is a "pretension . . .
    - 1555. What does it mean to say . . .
    - 1556. The idea that God's existence could be just . . .
    - 1557. If concretes (= instances = subjects), on the one hand . . .
    - 1558. Hartshorne says, "God in His bare existence . . .
    - 1559. It is an implication of theism, according to which . . .
  - Section 42: What is Philosophy? 1560a-1606
    - 1560a.The material object of both a religion and a metaphysics...
    - 1560b. I recently asked, What makes me a Christian? . . .
    - 1561. Philosophy may be defined as critical appropriation . . .
    - 1562. Although philosophy is definitely "a secondary activity" . . .
    - 1563. Presupposed by any meaning and any kind . . .
    - 1564. Any meaning and any kind of meaning are certain necessary . . .
    - 1565. Does it make sense to hold that transcendental ethics . . .
    - 1566. I have said sometimes that, just as transcendental . . .
    - 1567. I want to say that ethics, like metaphysics . . .
    - 1568. Foundational for philosophy's work in its second . . .
    - 1569. I've been clear for some time that the distinction . . .
    - 1570. Granted that one is misleading as well as misled . . .
    - 1571. Philosophy, understood classically, may be said to be . . .
    - 1572. What is philosophy? . . .
    - 1573. Note how, in the whole discussion of what philosophy is . . .
    - 1574. One interesting, if not sharply clear and . . .
    - 1575. Philosophy is commonly reckoned to belong to . . .
    - 1576. Let philosophy be understood as critical reflection . . .
    - 1577. "Philosophy" in general is a more or less reflective . . .
    - 1578. I want to hold that transcendental metaphysics . . .
    - 1579. What Does It All Mean?
    - 1580. I have said elsewhere that philosophy . . .
    - 1581. "Philosophy begins in wonder."
    - 1582. What are the necessary conditions of properly . . .
    - 1583. Philosophy is to religion and culture generally . . .
    - 1584. Theology, like philosophy, is a matter of fully . . .
    - 1585. On my old question as to the exact relation . . .
    - 1586. Task: To work out more clearly than I as yet . . .
    - 1587. What is the relation between . . .
    - 1588. According to Hartshorne, "Philosophy is reasoning . . .
    - 1589. What is philosophy?
    - 1590. What exactly are the differences between philosophy . . .
    - 1591. Whitehead and Hartshorne both, in their ways . . .
    - 1592. According to Hartshorne, there is a distinction . . .
    - 1593. What is it to be wise? . . .
    - 1594. What, exactly, does the wisdom of which philosophy . . .
    - 1595. Does the wisdom of which philosophy is the love . . .
    - 1596. If theology is to wisdom somewhat as metaphysics . . .
    - 1597. When Hartshorne talks about philosophy . . .
    - 1598. If Philosophy exists primarily to show us what . . .
    - 1599. Philosophy in its first, purely formal, analytic phase . . .
    - 1600. Is philosophy "hot" (religious) or . . .
    - 1601. If philosophy can be appropriately defined as . . .
    - 1602. Philosophy is not a mere collection of noble sentiments . . .
    - 1603. On the Question of What is Philosophy
    - 1604. As for the objection that I so understand philosophy . . .
    - 1605. If the activity of philosophy itself has . . .
    - 1606. John Wilson on Philosophy . . .
    - 1662. Were I ever to feel the need for yet further expert . . .
    - 1663. What is at stake for me in defining "religion". . .
    - 1664. George Santayana, "Natural and Ultimate Religion" . . .
    - 1665. What about applying a pragmatist . . .
    - 1666. Some years ago I asked whether . . .
    - 1667. It's worth keeping in mind that the use of such terms as . . .
    - 1668. If I have correctly understood my analysis of . . .
    - 1669. Could it be that the real difference between a religion . . .
    - 1670. The question I want an answer to is . . .
    - 1671. Religion as such necessarily presupposes that . . .
    - 1672. It appears evident that I need to rethink . . .
    - 1673. It is commonly thought that religion can be defined . . .
    - 1674. "Religious ideas claim to be the concrete form of . . .
    - 1702. Human existence is the actualization somehow . . .
    - 1711. On the Different Senses of "Transcendence," . . .
    - 1712. If I have correctly understood my analysis of . . .
    - 1713. Whether strictly ultimate reality is defined as . . .
    - 1714. I have argued elsewhere . . .
    - 1721. I find it interesting that just as Whitehead . . .
    - 1737. What does it mean to say, x implies y?
    - 1738. What is a Concept?
    - 1740. Theism, in a proper form, makes life . . .
    - 1741. There are Christian theologians and philosophers . . .
    - 1742. To the existence of what God do the so-called proofs . . .
    - 1743. Faith, both as trust and as loyalty . . .
    - 1744. What is the proper form of the cosmological argument . . .
    - 1745. If x is the all-worshipful, x must be . . .
    - 1746. What form ought the argument from design to take?
    - 1747. Ontological Argument
    - 1792. What is the difference between the social sciences . . .
    - 1793. Isn't there an important distinction to be made . . .
    - 1794. Nygren argues that . . .
    - 1795. There is a striking convergence between Hartshorne's . . .
    - 1796. Isn't Hartshorne's talk of . . .
    - 1797. All three of the basic scientific methods . . .
    - 1798. I seem to recall Dewey saying somewhere . . .
    - 1799. The sciences and metaphysics . . .
    - 1800. Science proceeds inductively . . .
    - 1801. Science is concerned with structure as distinct . . .
    - 1802. I have typically argued that critical reflection . . .
    - 1803. A good statement on the distinctive character . . .
    - 1804. On "the Common Sense of the Subject"
    - 1805. More on "the Common Sense of the Subject"
    - 1806. In his classic dissent in the Abrams case . . .
    - 1807. Democracy is government of the people . . .
    - 1808. That there is a "higher law," in the sense . . .
    - 1809. Already for the Greeks . . .
    - 1810. I want to say that the Declaration of Independence . . .
    - 1811. Is it true that we, as Americans, are . . .
    - 1812. Any American is free to believe . . .
    - 1813. What's really going on when Reinhold Niebuhr . . .
    - 1814. According to the Enlightenment . . .
    - 1815. Concerning the point I've made about . . .
    - 1816. What do heirs of the Enlightenment . . .
    - 1817. The most fundamental human right is . . .
    - 1818. I have argued, together with Gamwell . . .
    - 1819. What does it mean to say, x implies y?
    - 1820. For me, the key to thinking clearly about . . .
    - 1821. The purpose of framing and ratifying . . .
    - 1822. Some Thoughts on Liberalism
    - 1823. I have argued that "no interpretation of the" . . .
    - 1824. What are the necessary conditions of . . .
    - 1825. Brümmer argues that "two factual presuppositions . . .
    - 1826. Isaiah Berlin says in his essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty" . . .
    - 1827. Justice Holmes speaks of men's possibly . . .
    - 1828. The important philosophical question raised by . . .
    - 1829. The foundations of the Republic may be said . . .
    - 1830. What is properly meant by "the Union"?
    - 1831.The foundations of the Republic . . . (REPEATED AT 1829)
    - 1832. On a religious interpretation of democracy . . .
    - 1833. There are two issues . . .
    - 1834. One of the points stressed by Stephen Ambrose . . .
    - 1835. What is the Enlightenment?
    - 1836. The following passage from the Federalist . . .
    - 1837. Is there any such thing as human equality?
    - 1838. Wherein does human equality consist?
    - 1839. Niebuhr claims, perhaps correctly, that . . .
    - 1840. What, exactly, is civil society?
    - 1841.The formation of civil society presupposes...
    - 1842. Lynch is certainly right that . . .
    - 1843. Liberalism is the view that human beings...
    - 1844. Constitutionalism is the rule of law . . .
    - 1845. On Samuel H. Beer's "To Make a Nation"
    - 1846. On my understanding, what Beer means by . . .
    - 1847. If I have correctly understood them . . .
    - 1848. There are four instances of explicit God-talk . . .
    - 1849. What Do We Mean by Faith in American Public Life?
    - 1850. Having read Gamwell's Democratic Religion . . .
    - 1851. The Constitution presupposes . . .
    - 1852. But, clearly, the Constitution also presupposes . . .
    - 1853. Modern defenders of universal human rights . . .
    - 1854. Maximizing the good requires social cooperation . . .
    - 1855. Gamwell, "The Moral Ground of Cosmopolitan Democracy"
    - 1856. Human rights articulate a universal or natural moral law . . .
    - 1857. What Gamwell does, in effect . . .
    - 1858. There appears to be a problem with Gamwell's reasoning . . .
    - 1859. "On Politics as a Christian Vocation"
    - 1860. Gamwell says, "In itself . . .
    - 1861. We bear (implicit) witness . . .
    - 1862. One point that Gamwell doesn't make . . .
    - 1863. Gamwell's basic point . . .
    - 1864. Why are Christians able to embrace . . .
    - 1865. I first thought that Ronald Dworkin's distinction . . .
    - 1866. Gamwell says . . .
    - 1867. Chris's reply to my criticism
    - 1868. If I understand Gamwell's reasoning correctly . . .
    - 1869. What is Jaffa's point in his dispute with Bork, Rehnquist, et al . . .
    - 1870. The proper provisions of a democratic constitution . . .
    - 1871. We the people of the United States of America . . .
    - 1872. Further thoughts on Gamwell's distinction . . .
    - 1873. What would be the problem . . .
    - 1874. Some further thoughts in connection with my Auseinandersetzung with Gamwell . . .
    - 1875. Gamwell on the purpose of the state, etc.
    - 1876. "Politics" in the broad sense . . .
    - 1877. What Is Democracy?
    - 1878. Gamwell defines "politics" formally as . . .
    - 1879. So far as I can see, there are at least three stages . . .
    - 1880. In what sense, if any, is reason . . .
    - 1881. Morality and politics, as well as science . . .
    - 1882. According to an article on "God and Cyberspace" . . .
    - 1883. Houston Smith's criticism of "Process Theology" . . .
    - 1884. Perhaps yet another use of Whitehead's notion . . .
    - 1885. Some Basic Presuppositions
    - 1886. Skepticism is self-contradictory . . .
    - 1887. Let realism be the position that . . .
    - 1888. Hilary Putnam on Richard Rorty
    - 1889. In one of his several different statements about metaphysics . . .
    - 1890. I have been struck by the following comments . . .
    - 1891. What is the datum of which philosophy . . .
    - 1892. There are several matters . . .
    - 1893. On Rorty's Historicist PhiIosophy
    - 1894. De George says . . .
    - 1895. Normal adult perception . . .
    - 1896. There are three arguments . . .
    - 1897. On Reasoning
    - 1898. If x's judgment is trustworthy . . .
    - 1899. Some Reflections on Our Knowledge of Other Selves
    - 1900. When Hartshorne says . . .
    - 1901. On the Distinction between . . .
    - 1902. To what extent can the following two lines . . .
    - 1903. What is the inclusive object of one's self-understanding . . .
    - 1904. According to one traditional scheme . . .
    - 1905. To say, as Melanchthon does . . .
    - 1906. Why should one allow . . .
    - 1907. On Transcendental Deduction as Mode of Argument
    - 1908. On The Distinctions between Thought and Speech . . .
    - 1909. Self-Understanding, Metaphysics, and Morals . . .
    - 1910. To what extent can one properly regard metaphysics . . .
    - 1911. On Explanation and Explication . . .
    - 1912. On Explanation vs. Description
    - 1913. If it is "trifling with philosophical problems . . .
    - 1914. To consummate . . .
    - 1915. Cultural lag . . .
    - 1916. On "Enjoy" (OED) . . .
    - 1917. On the Levels of Awareness
    - 1918. One understanding of what it is to conceive . . .
    - 1919. What are the different logically possible answers . . .
    - 1920. In correcting some of my formulations . . .
    - 1921. In the past, I have criticized Descartes's definition . . .
    - 1922. According to Collingwood
    - 1923. Kant seems to me exactly right . . .
    - 1924. Kant's sharp criticism of Judaism . . .
    - 1925. I quite overlooked . . .
    - 1926. Essay to Be Written
    - 1927. One insight that l owe . . .
    - 1928. Existentialism, in the final analysis . . .
    - 1929. Anything actual has at least . . .
    - 1941. What are the promise and the limitations . . .
    - 1942. It appears that yet another debt I may owe . . .
    - 1943. According to Holub, Habermas uses "reflection" . . .
    - 1944. An explicit speech act has a characteristic double structure . . .
    - 1945. According to McCarthy, Habermas . . .
    - 1946. On my account, the process of appropriating constatives . . .
    - 1947. If the tacit presupposition that the claims to validity made . . .
    - 1948. Habermas makes, or allows for, a threefold distinction . . .
    - 1949. One and the same proposition may constitute the content of either
    - 1950. What are dogmas—and, more generally, standards of doctrine?
    - 1951. According to McCarthy, Habermas holds that . . .
    - 1952. Now as before, Habermas is, for me, a tantalizing figure . . .
    - 1953. The abstract logical distinction between intersubjectively binding judgments . . .
    - 1954. Any properly communicative act makes or implies claims to validity . . .
    - 1955. Why do I speak of the second level of understanding . . .
    - 1956. Specific points from the discussion with Jürgen Habermas . . .
    - 1957. Witness critically appropriated is theology
  - Section 43: Philosophical Study of Religion, 1607-1661
    - 1607. On Questions
    - 1608. Philosophical Study of Religion
    - 1609. A Philosophy of Religion: Some Theses
    - 1610. Some More Theses
    - 1611. Four Presuppositions' Concerning Religion
    - 1612.What constitutes a religion?...
    - 1613. The constitution of a religious community . . .
    - 1614. All religions have to do with the constitution . . .
    - 1615. Any religion is constituted as such by some . . .
    - 1616. I have argued that "all religions have to do with . . .
    - 1618. How do the adherents of a religion . . .
    - 1619. Bearing witness is appropriate to the explicit . . .
    - 1620. What bearing witness counts in principle . . .
    - 1621. Is doing empirical-historical research necessary...
    - 1622. Why do I hold that a religion can claim . . .
    - 1623. What is it to be "religious"?
    - 1624. Any religion as such explicitly formulates . . .
    - 1625. Religion is a "cultural system" . . .
    - 1626. A religion makes or implies a claim to decisive . . .
    - 1627. The issue that concerns me here is how to . . .
    - 1628. It is true that religion has a metaphysical aspect . . .
    - 1629. If religion may be defined generically as . . .
    - 1630. It's obvious, but it may be worth remarking . . .
    - 1631. Bultmann argues . . .
    - 1632. Does it not belong to the very concept . . .
    - 1633. Does not each of the axial religions presuppose . . .
    - 1634. The axial religions all agree in claiming . . .
    - 1635. All axial religions are formally the same . . .
    - 1636. How should the concept "religio vera" . . .
    - 1637. It is at best misleading to say that the true . . .
    - 1638. What, exactly, do I understand by "the true religion"?
    - 1639. In at least one place, I distinguish religion . . .
    - 1640. The basic insight to be pursued in these reflections . . .
    - 1641. I have written that "'the true religion'. . . could be . . .
    - 1642. Philosophy and religion differ, I've argued . . .
    - 1643. The traditional revisionary insistence that what is normative . . .
    - 1644. have usually operated with the distinction between . . .
    - 1645.The question of the formal structure of religious authority . . .
    - 1646. It's worth remembering that I have more than once . . .
    - 1647. Pluralists seem ever to confuse truths with claims . . .
    - 1648. On the Pragmatic Criterion of Truth
    - 1649.The Gnostic and the apocalyptic ways of thinking may...
    - 1650. On the A Priori as Dynamic
    - 1651. On Strata of Meaning in Religious Discourse
    - 1652. Existentialist Analysis, Metaphysics, and Religion
    - 1653. Is agnosticism about religious truth a necessary . . .
    - 1654 . On Analyzing Credenda and Agenda as Expressions of Faith
    - 1655. All religions summon one to live realistically . . .
    - 1656. It seems clear upon reflection that . . .
    - 1657. What is my distinction between constitutivist and representativist . . .
    - 1658. Dewey, significantly, distinguishes two conceits . . .
    - 1659. What Dewey says about our sense of the whole . . .
    - 1660. Some Thoughts about Santayana's "Natural and Ultimate Religion"
    - 1661. I'm now convinced that Wittgenstein's authority can . . .
  - Section 44: Experience, etc., 1675-1699
    - 1675. Experience is the source of meanings and concepts
    - 1676. Our ordinary experience has two principal dimensions . . .
    - 1677. What do we actually experience in the vertical . . .
    - 1678. What is it that we experience in the existential . . .
    - 1679. Sometimes I've thought and written as though . . .
    - 1680. I have said (e.g., in "Theology without Metaphysics?") . . .
    - 1681. Isn't what my view comes to something . . .
    - 1682. Language is properly said to function existentially . . .
    - 1683. What is "the fundamental situation disclosed in experience"?
    - 1684. Experience, according to Webster's Dictionary . . .
    - 1685. Experience is always experience of . . .
    - 1686. Just as an experience is always an experience of . . .
    - 1687. Both existentials and transcendentals are experienced . . .
    - 1688. It's now clear to me that my reflection on . . .
    - 1689. Any existential self-understanding . . .
    - 1690. Faith is or involves an existential . . .
    - 1691. Christian faith in the subjective meaning of . . .
    - 1692. Using Whitehead's distinction, one may say that . . .
    - 1693. Any language addressed, directly or indirectly . . .
    - 1694. In my own way, I have long since distinguished between . . .
    - 1695. We ask intellectual questions because . . .
    - 1696. There is no need to state or imply . . .
    - 1697. Human beings ask both vital questions and . . .
    - 1698. Could it be that what distinguishes wisdom . . .
    - 1699. The priority of experience to reason is irreversible . . .
  - Section 45: On Ultimate Reality, 1700-1701
    - 1700. On "Ultimate Reality"
    - 1701. What is "ultimate reality"? . . .
  - Section 46: Human Existence, 1703-1710
    - 1703. To be human is not merely to live but to . . .
    - 1704. Our fragmentariness as human beings is not . . .
    - 1705. Our original call to be a human being is . . .
    - 1706. What is it to ask about life's meaning? . . .
    - 1707. Among all the animals, we human beings are . . .
    - 1708. What is the aim of life?
    - 1709. Man makes himself . . .
    - 1710. Right from the start, man's creativity . . .
  - Section 47: Basic Faith, 1715-1720
    - 1715. On my analysis, to live as a human being . . .
    - 1716. On Basic Confidence in the Worth of Life
    - 1717. Shouldn't one distinguish between two types of "secularism"?
    - 1718. For a long time now, I've thought that our basic . . .
    - 1719. The most basic use or function of "God" . . .
    - 1720. Hartshorne says . . .
  - Section 48: Presuppositions/On Needs and Interests, 1722-1736
    - 1722. What is the difference, if any, between the metaphysical . . .
    - 1723. I have argued elsewhere that an adequate . . .
    - 1724. We need to distinguish between philosophical . . .
    - 1725. On Science, Morality, and Religion
    - 1726.Faith, Religion (PART OF THE PDF FILE CAN'T BE READ)
    - 1727. Ethical Queries About Modern Science
    - 1728. A debate about science is one thing . . .
    - 1729. Science, Technology, Religion, and Theology
    - 1730. The Convergences of Science and Religion
    - 1731. Process Philosophy and the Convergences of Science and Religion
    - 1732. Science and Religion: Issues of Convergence
    - 1733. What, exactly, are "presuppositions"?
    - 1734. On Needs and Interests
    - 1735. There is a distinction to be made between . . .
    - 1736. How does one respond to the objection that . . .
  - Section 49: Idea of God, 1739
    - 1739. The essence or individuality of God is given as a . . .
  - Section 50: God--and Arguments for God, 1748-1752
    - 1748. Teleological Argument
    - 1749. Cosmological Argument
    - 1750. Everything, Something, and Nothing
    - 1751. It is inappropriate to ask . . .
    - 1752. How Does One Speak in Secular Fashion of God?
  - Section 51: Concerning the Senses of 'Symbol,'; 'Existence,' etc., 1753-1768
    - 1753. On "the Euthyphro 'dilemma'"
    - 1754. Concerning the Senses of "Symbol"
    - 1755. Could it be that "theory" . . .
    - 1756. I remain convinced that the proper use of the term "theoretical" . . .
    - 1757. On the Whole Point of Theory and of Praxis
    - 1758. It seems clear that the orthodox distinction . . .
    - 1759. I have allowed that a distinction is to be made . . .
    - 1760. Existence" is yet another term having different . . .
    - 1761. On the Senses of "Theory" and "Praxis"
    - 1762. The Senses of "Intellectual" and Its Cognates
    - 1763. "Interpretation" can be understood . . .
    - 1764. I wonder whether "experience" may not be . . .
    - 1765. If "interpretation" and "experience" . . .
    - 1766. I wonder whether "categorial" may . . .
    - 1767. "Assertion" is evidently ambiguous . . .
    - 1768. The statement that we never have facts . . .
  - Section 52: True, Truth, 1769-1784
    - 1769. According to the analysis on which . . .
    - 1770. What do I mean when I claim . . .
    - 1771. Obiter Dicta on Truth
    - 1772. E. J. Dionne, Jr. has wisely written . . .
    - 1773. On "True" and "Authentic"
    - 1774. On "Authentic," etc.
    - 1775. Language has many uses . . .
    - 1776. According to Thomas Aquinas . . .
    - 1777. Lynch on Truth
    - 1778. How does one determine the criterion . . .
    - 1779. My question, as I try to think further about "truth" . . .
    - 1780. We need a concept of truth in order to . . .
    - 1781. Verificationism, as a theory of truth, is wrong.
    - 1782. When one says that a belief . . .
    - 1783. To claim that a belief is true is to claim . . .
    - 1784. "Structures, that is, relations of relations" . . .
  - Section 53: Miscellaneous, Philosophical, 1785-1929
    - 1785. On "Being"
    - 1786. The concept of "substantial agreement" . . .
    - 1787. To what extent is there a correspondence . . .
    - 1788. I too often proceed as though there were only . . .
    - 1789. On the Three Types of Science
    - 1790. I have often said that the sciences . . .
    - 1791. I more and more see the need . . .
  - Section 54: Intrinsic/Constitutive Value, 1930-1932, 1938
    - 1930. Value judgments employing gerundive predicates . . .
    - 1931. I find it interesting (and supportive!) . . .
    - 1932. Evangelical critics of "liberalism" . . .
    - 1938. There is clearly a problem . . .
  - Section 55: Buddhism, 1933-1934
    - 1933. In the Hua-Yen tradition . . .
    - 1934. Buddhism in its Northern . . .
  - Section 56: Meaning for Us/Structure in Itself, 1935-1937, 1939-1940
    - 1935. Meaning-for-Us . . .
    - 1936. "Significance" requires analysis in "objective relativist" terms . . .
    - 1937. I have become accustomed to distinguishing . . .
    - 1939. I've asked elsewhere . . .
    - 1940. On the Distinction between "Being-in-Itself" and "Meaning-for-Us"
  - Section 57: Academic Freedom and Tenure, 1958-1960
    - 1958. Concerning Academic Freedom and Tenure
    - 1959. On Professionalization and Academic Freedom
    - 1960. What Is Rationality?
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