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{en} Richard R Niebuhr. Resurrection and Historical Reason: A Study of Theological Method. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957.

Abstract

Based on Ph. D. thesis, Yale University./ Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The resurrection of Jesus Christ and the modern Protestant mind -- The conflict between resurrection and ideas of history -- The idea of historical causality in the midnineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The resurrection tradition and "the Jesus of history" -- The metaphysical interpretation of history and the resurrection -- Some recent suggestions for an historical method -- The place of the apostolic witness in our faith -- 2. Resurrection and theological method -- The possibility of an independent theological method -- The community against nature -- The "pathos for reality" -- The solitary exister -- The remembering church -- 3. The possibility of an historical reason -- The eclipse of the historical -- Heilsgeschichte: The idea of a non-historical history -- The concept of historical reason -- The problem of nature -- 4. The conflict of history and nature -- Ideas of nature in modern theology -- The naturalization of history -- The historicizing of nature -- 5. The power of the past -- The church in Christendom -- The power of the past -- The sources of historical interpretation -- 6. History, resurrection and law -- History and law -- Resurrection and history.

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