| Acknowledgements | | xi | |
| | xiii | |
| | 1 | (20) |
| Knowing God and the way of history |
| | 1 | (2) |
| | 3 | (3) |
| | 6 | (8) |
| | 14 | (1) |
| The mirror as an invitation |
| | 15 | (6) |
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| | 21 | (96) |
| | 21 | (20) |
| Knowledge of God and piety |
| | 21 | (9) |
| | 30 | (5) |
| Knowledge of God and conscience |
| | 35 | (6) |
| | 41 | (22) |
| Accommodation as the basic form of all revelation |
| | 41 | (7) |
| Accommodation as the key concept in sacred history |
| | 48 | (4) |
| Accommodation and language |
| | 52 | (5) |
| The metaphor of the mirror: knowledge as imitation |
| | 57 | (6) |
| | 63 | (12) |
| The soul as bridgehead: mental capacities |
| | 63 | (7) |
| | 70 | (3) |
| | 73 | (2) |
| Manifestations in the external world |
| | 75 | (12) |
| | 75 | (2) |
| | 77 | (8) |
| Excursus: the discussion between Dowey and Parker |
| | 85 | (2) |
| | 87 | (2) |
| Scripture as accommodation |
| | 89 | (6) |
| Knowledge of God as result of Word and Spirit |
| | 95 | (9) |
| | 104 | (11) |
| A qualified concept of faith |
| | 104 | (2) |
| | 106 | (2) |
| | 108 | (7) |
| The limits and benefit of knowledge of God |
| | 115 | (2) |
| | 117 | (72) |
| Utility and the doctrine of God |
| | 117 | (4) |
| The anti-speculative tenor |
| | 121 | (3) |
| | 124 | (3) |
| | 127 | (3) |
| Core concepts: loving-kindness, judgement and righteousness |
| | 130 | (2) |
| Lord of the world: God's care and goodness in the order of the world |
| | 132 | (4) |
| The judgement of the judge and the discipline of the father |
| | 136 | (2) |
| | 138 | (5) |
| The anchor of God's unchanging will |
| | 143 | (5) |
| Predestination and responsibility |
| | 148 | (3) |
| Father and Lord: love and fear |
| | 151 | (7) |
| Knowing in faith, in bits and pieces: predestination |
| | 158 | (27) |
| | 158 | (9) |
| Handling of the doctrine of predestination |
| | 167 | (3) |
| The benefit of the knowledge of predestination |
| | 170 | (4) |
| God's will as the farthest horizon |
| | 174 | (2) |
| | 176 | (1) |
| Excursus: potentia absoluta et ordinata. A brief historical overview |
| | 177 | (7) |
| | 184 | (1) |
| Once again: God as father |
| | 185 | (4) |
| The Supper and Knowledge of God |
| | 189 | (36) |
| | 189 | (6) |
| | 195 | (5) |
| Only a cognitive advantage? |
| | 195 | (4) |
| | 199 | (1) |
| Sacrament as a form of accommodation |
| | 200 | (2) |
| | 202 | (11) |
| | 202 | (2) |
| The body of Christ after Ascension. The discussion with the Lutherans |
| | 204 | (4) |
| | 208 | (5) |
| The Holy Spirit and instrumentality |
| | 213 | (12) |
| | 213 | (3) |
| The incomprehensibility of the work of the Spirit |
| | 216 | (2) |
| The way of knowledge of God |
| | 218 | (1) |
| | 219 | (6) |
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| The Turn to the Subject in Kant's Philosophy |
| | 225 | (26) |
| | 225 | (3) |
| The tradition-critical attitude |
| | 228 | (2) |
| | 230 | (3) |
| | 233 | (3) |
| The conditions of knowing. Metaphysics as methodological investigation into the conditions of knowing |
| | 236 | (2) |
| Knowledge as human construction |
| | 238 | (3) |
| The limitation of metaphysics and the place of faith in God |
| | 241 | (5) |
| | 246 | (5) |
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| | 251 | (66) |
| Introduction: theology and society |
| | 251 | (7) |
| `Not without audacity': the primacy of revelation |
| | 258 | (4) |
| Human knowing of God as theological datum |
| | 262 | (1) |
| Knowledge of God as event |
| | 263 | (2) |
| Knowledge of God as participation in God's self-knowledge |
| | 265 | (1) |
| God as the object of knowledge |
| | 266 | (2) |
| Faith as a form of knowledge |
| | 268 | (1) |
| The place of the human subject |
| | 268 | (3) |
| Mediation and sacramentality |
| | 271 | (3) |
| The way of knowing God. Between mystery and truth |
| | 274 | (4) |
| A look back. From impossibility to reality |
| | 278 | (3) |
| Dogmatics as a grammar for speaking about God? |
| | 281 | (8) |
| Human capacities and knowledge of God: the heritage of Marburg |
| | 289 | (4) |
| The reality of knowledge of God. The analogia fidei |
| | 293 | (15) |
| | 308 | (3) |
| | 311 | (6) |
| | 317 | (70) |
| Knowledge of God as knowledge of God's being. The anti-agnostic thrust of a theological decision |
| | 317 | (5) |
| God's reality: being and act |
| | 322 | (2) |
| | 324 | (2) |
| | 326 | (3) |
| | 329 | (1) |
| Revelation as self-revelation? |
| | 329 | (6) |
| | 335 | (2) |
| The perfections of God's love |
| | 337 | (11) |
| | 337 | (2) |
| | 339 | (6) |
| | 345 | (3) |
| The perfections of God's freedom |
| | 348 | (15) |
| | 348 | (5) |
| Constancy and omnipotence |
| | 353 | (5) |
| | 358 | (5) |
| Election as a component of the doctrine of God |
| | 363 | (2) |
| Election as the basic decision of God |
| | 365 | (3) |
| Election as the core issue |
| | 368 | (3) |
| | 371 | (10) |
| | 381 | (3) |
| Eternity, time and God's acting today |
| | 384 | (3) |
| New Space for Human Action: Barth's View of the Sacrament |
| | 387 | (30) |
| Doctrine of baptism as mirror |
| | 387 | (5) |
| | 392 | (6) |
| Regard for the humanity of Jesus |
| | 392 | (1) |
| | 393 | (2) |
| | 395 | (2) |
| The assistance of the Enlightenment |
| | 397 | (1) |
| | 398 | (6) |
| | 404 | (1) |
| | 405 | (2) |
| Baptism with water as answer |
| | 407 | (4) |
| | 411 | (1) |
| The meaning of the term `noetic' |
| | 412 | (5) |
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| | 417 | (38) |
| Christian theology as a counterproposal |
| | 417 | (2) |
| Knowledge of God and theology |
| | 419 | (7) |
| From cosmological rootage to self-sufficiency |
| | 426 | (2) |
| The systematic function of the concept of revelation: guarantee for knowledge of God |
| | 428 | (2) |
| The place of the faculties of knowing |
| | 430 | (3) |
| | 433 | (2) |
| | 435 | (3) |
| Lights, lamps and their fuel |
| | 438 | (4) |
| The content of knowledge of God: saving proximity |
| | 442 | (4) |
| The role of man in knowing God |
| | 446 | (4) |
| Sacrament: the same thing, in a different way |
| | 450 | (3) |
| | 453 | (2) |
| Bibliography | | 455 | (12) |
| Index of Names | | 467 | (6) |
| Index of Terms | | 473 | |
