New directions in theology today: History and hermeneutics - Braaten, Carl E., 1929- (Philadelphia : Westminster Press, 1966)
The idea of revelation through history. The inflation of revelation ; The ascendancy of history ; Nineteenth-century ideas of revelation ; Revelation as history -- Theology and the historical-critical method. The legacy of liberalism ; Existentialist historiography ; The Babylonian captivity of history ; Historical reason and faith -- Our knowledge of the historical Jesus. The historical Jesus in retrospect ; Christology and historical skepticism ; The kerygma and the historical Jesus ; Directions of the new quest -- The historical event of the resurrection. The irony of the form-critical consensus ; The devaluation of Easter in neoliberalism ; The new theology of the resurrection ; The historical problem of the resurrection -- "Heilgeschichte" and the Old Testament. The controversy past and present ; Two versions of Israel's history ; Types of Old Testament interpretation -- Hermeneutics of the Word and church. From Schleiermacher to Bultmann ; Newer hermeneutical options ; Scripture and the tradition ; Dogma and liturgy -- Eschatology and history. Types of eschatology ; The hope of history.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [183]-196).
Keywords: Bible -- Hermeneutics; Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity