Faith and Objectivity

I. The Problem of Objectivity in the Genesis of Buri's Theology.- A. Consistent Eschatology and Philosophy of Religion: Buri's Early Position.- B. Objectivity and Self-Understanding: The Transition to Buri's Mature Position.- I The Problem of Objectivity in the Foundations of a Theological Hermeneutic.- II. The Theological Problem of Objectivity and Non-Objectivity.- A. Objectivity and Non-Objectivity in the Contemporary Discussion.- B. Knowledge and the Meanings of Objectivity.- 1. The Conditions of Objectivity in General.- 2. The Conditions of Scientific Objectivity.- C. The Problem of Objectivity and Theological Language.- D. The Limits of Objectivity.- 1. The Transparency of the Subject-Object Structure.- 2. The Limits of Scientific Objectivity.- E. Bun's Clarification of the Problem of Objectivity.- III. The Non-Objectivity of Faith and Revelation.- A. The Self-Reference of Theological Language in Schleiermacher's Concept of Self-Consciousness.- B. The Self-Reference of Theological Language in Buri's Concept of Self-Understanding.- 1. Faith as a General Human Possibility.- 2. Human Existence as Grace: Buri's Systematic Principle.- 3. Faith and the Christian Self-Understanding.- C. The Historicity of Revelation in Buri's Theology.- 1. Revelation for Knowledge.- 2. Historicity and Revelation for Faith.- IV. Symbol, Myth, and the Dialectic of Objectivity and Nonobjectivity.- A. The Theory of Symbols.- B. Demythologizing, Existentialist Interpretation, and the Self-Understanding of Myth.- 1. Buri's Concept of Myth.- 2. The Reappropriation of Myth in Self-Understanding.- C. Myth and Symbol.- D. The Hermeneutical Significance of the Systematic Principle.- II The Problem of Objectivity in the Implementation of the Hermeneutical Principles.- V. Historicity and the Systematic Principle in the Interpretation of Doctrines.- A. Anthropology and Christology in the Dogmatic System.- B. The Imago Dei and the Historicity of the Christian Self-Understanding.- C. The Person of Christ and the Christian Self-Understanding.- 1. The Divinity of Christ in the Christian Self-Understanding.- 2. The Humanity of Christ in the Christian Self-Understanding.- D. The Failure of Historicity.- E. The Systematic Principle, Historicity, and the Dilemma of Objectivity.- VI. Existentialist Interpretation and Objective Description.- A. Objective Possibility and Existential Actuality.- 1. Two Types of Limits of Knowledge.- 2. Existentialist Theology and Qualifying the Limits on Objectification.- 3. Theology and Proclamation.- B. The Objective Status of Buri's Systematic Principle.- C. Objective Description of Existential Modes of Being.- 1. The Personhood of God in the Self-Understanding of Faith.- 2. Self and World in the Self-Understanding of Faith.- VII. Radical Theology and the Problem of Objectivity.- A. The Significance of Existentialist Interpretation for a Radical Theology.- B. Ontology and the Subject-Object Structure.- C. Existential Language in its Larger Linguistic Context.