Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Direction: On the way to "Postmodernity": Postmodern - a heuristic concept; Crisis and the departure toward the New; The Function of Religion in Postmodernity
Classical Conflicts: I. Ecumenical Theology caught in the cross fire: Consequences of the Dispute between Rome, Luther and Erasmus: Chances for Third Force?; The Restoration of the Counter-Reformation; Erasmus the Unloved; A Reformer before the Reformers; The Emergency: Wittenberg versus Rome; Between Rome and Wittenberg: Neutrality instead of Commitment; Martin Luther's Share of the Guilt; On the Responsibility of Theology at the Moment of Truth; Ecumenical Theology between Aggression and flight
II. The Bible and Church Tradition: Unfinished business between Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy: Scripture "and" Tradition: The Catholic answer to Luther; Scripture "or" Tradition: A weak compromise by Vatican II; Scripture - taken literally: The Protestant version of infallibility; Does Inspired mean unerring? Vatican II and the Bible; The Ecumenical Solution: Scripture as Testimony to Revelation; Is the Orthodox Tradition in keeping with Scripture? The Problem of the Eastern Church; Yes to the Bible, Tradition, and Authority; No to Biblicism, Traditionalism and Authoritarianism; What Christians believe in

III. Schism because of the Bible?: On the problem of the unity of Scripture and the Church: Is the Unity of the Church grounded in the New Testament Canon?: Ernst Kasemann; The dispute over Unity: Hermann Diem; Narrowing the area of discussion: Agreements; The reason for the Multiplicity of Confessions: Selection; Evangelical Catholicity as an Imperative; Postscript 1986
Dogma Versus the Bible? Historico-Critical Exegesis as a Challenge to Dogmatic Theology: On the misery of Today's Dogmatic Theology; The Sacraments - "Instituted by Christ"?; Church offices - "in the Apostolic Succession"?; Jesus Christ - in the Shadow of Dogma?

B. Future Perspectives: I. How does one do Christian Theology?: Steps toward understanding: Vatican II and its Consequences; A comparison of Two Christologies: Edward Schillebeeckx; What is the norm for Christian Theology?; The Consensus on Historico-critical Exegesis; What to do in the jungle of Hypotheses?; What is the Horizon of Catholic Theology?; Critical correlation without Critical Confrontation?
II. Paradigm change in Theology and Science: A. Fundamental Historical-Theological Clarification: In search of connections; The Theoretical Framework; What does Paradigm change mean?: Thomas S. Kuhn; Macro-, Meso-, and Microparadigms; How does Novelty come into being?: Parallels from Natural Science and Theology; A Total Break? The question of Continuity; Differences between Theology and Science; A Critical Ecumenical Theology; Horizon? The World (First Constant); What Standard? The Christian Message (Second Constant)

III. A New basic model of Theology?: Disputable and Indisputable points: "Paradigm": A Controversial Concept; Clarifications; The Present-day Crisis: What we don't have to Argue about any more; Four Dimensions of the Postmodern Paradigm
IV: Theology on the way to a new paradigm: Reflections on my own career: The Paradigm of Catholic Traditionalism; Speculative escape routes: Karl Rahner; A theology of crisis: Karl Barth; Bridging the gap between Exegesis and Dogmatic Theology; The Christian Message as the basic norm of Theology; Today's World of Experience as the horizon of Theology; From the Modern-Enlightened to the Postmodern Paradigm; Theology in the Postmodern Paradigm; Ethos and Style of Critical Ecumenical Theology

C. A new departure toward a Theology of the World Religions. I. On paradigm change in the world religions: Preliminary reflections on an Analysis of the Religious Situation of the Age: The Distinction between religion and Paradigm; The question of Epochal Thresholds; The survival of "outdated" paradigms in Art and Religion; Does Paradigm change mean progress?; Constants and variables in Buddhism -- II. Is there one True Religion? An essay in establishing Ecumenical criteria: One or Several: A pragmatic solution?; Four Basic positions; The knotty question of a criterion for truth; The Human Element: General Religious Criterion; The Authentic or Canonical: General Religious Criterion: On the specifically Christian Criterion; On the way to ever Greater Truth

D. Karl Barth and the Postmodern Paradigm: Theological confrontation; Catholic attempts at understanding; Ecumenical understanding; Karl Barth - Initiator of a "Postmodern" paradigm in Theology; Karl Barth - Not the perfector of the Postmodern paradigm in Theology; Creation-Revelation: The Permanent Challenge of "Natural Theology"; Criticism of "Theological Exegesis": The Permanent Challenge of Rudolf Bultmann; A critical-sympathetic Rereading of Barth against the background of Postmodernity