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Basic Questions in Theology, Volume 1

  • Theology
  • Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
  • Published: 1968

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Publisher's Description

In this classic collection of essays, Wolfhart Pannenberg gives special focus to the ways in which history, hermeneutics, reason and truth all guide and inform our various attempts at understanding God. This focus, then, offers the reader a unique insight into the revelation of God. Pannenberg writes, "To say that the revelation of God is not a supernatural event which breaks into history perpendicularly from above but rather that it is the theme of history itself, the power that moves it in its deepest dimension, is to say something about God and his relation to the world."


Endorsements (1)

“Invaluable for a serious study of Pannenberg's position. For besides the advantage of a now complete English rendering of the major programmatic essay 'Redemptive Event and History,' the English reader is also informed about Pannenberg's position in such crucial substantive issues as his understanding of the role of the scriptures and of doctrine in contemporary theology....”

David Tracy

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