| Description |
xii, 299 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Biblical Foundations. The Old Testament. The Synoptic Gospels. The Post-Easter Community; the Acts. Paul. John. Other New Testament Writers -- 2. Patristic and Medieval Developments. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Post-Nicene Greek Fathers. Post-Nicene Latin Fathers. Early Middle Ages. Golden Age of Scholasticism. Later Middle Ages -- 3. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Reformation. The Catholic Reaction; The Council of Trent. Post-Tridentine Controversial Literature. The English Reformation. Mysticism and Baroque Scholasticism. The Salvation of the Unevangelized. The Controversy about Probabilism. Seventeenth-Century Rationalism and Sentimentalism. Eighteenth Century: Philosophers and Evangelicals. Catholic Orthodoxy -- 4. Nineteenth Century. Protestant Philosophical Theologians. Catholicism before Vatican I. Vatican Council I. Catholicism after Vatican I. Liberal Protestantism -- 5. Early Twentieth Century. Continuation of Liberal Protestantism. Orthodox Reactions in Protestantism. Catholic Modernism -- Neo-Scholasticism. From Blondel to Rousselot -- 6. Mid-Twentieth Century. Dialectical Theology. Further Developments in Protestantism. Catholic Phenomenology. The "Nouvelle Theologie" Catholic Personalism. Vatican Council II -- 7. Recent Developments. Theological Aesthetics. Transcendental Theology. Liberation Theology. Theology of Hope. Historical Reason and Anticipation. Conservative Evangelicalism -- 8. Models and Issues. Propositional Model. Transcendental Model. Fiducial Model. Affective-Experiential Model. Obediential Model. Praxis Model. Personalist Model. Models in Dialogue. Issues. Prospectus -- 9. Nature and Object of Faith. Nature of Faith. Formal Object. Material Object. Faith and the Church. Faith and Doctrine. Propositional Faith? Faith and Belief. Erroneous Faith? The Question of Ecclesiastical Faith. Faith in Private Revelation -- 10. Grounding of Faith. Faith and Reason. Evidence of Credibility. Supernatural Helps. Motives of Credibility and of Faith. The Experience of Discovery -- Reason and Experience within Faith -- 11. Properties of Faith. Supernaturality. Freedom. Certitude and Doubt. Obscurity -- 12. Development of Faith. Baptized Infants. Birth of Faith in Adults. Increase of Faith. Psychology of Faith Development. Decrease and Loss of Faith -- 13. Faith and Salvation. Necessity of Faith. Faith of the Unevangelized: Bible and Magisterium. Faith of the Unevangelized: Theological Theories -- 14. Concluding Synthesis. The Nature of Faith. Attributes of Faith. The Life of Faith. The Universal Call to Faith. Christian Faith . |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
Faith.
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| Indexed Term |
Christianity Faith |
| ISBN |
0195083024 alkaline paper |
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