| Preface | p. xi |
| Publicness in Systematic Theology | p. 1 |
| A Social Portrait of the Theologian: The Three Publics of Theology: Society, Academy, Church | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Public of Society: The Three Realms of Society | p. 6 |
| The Public of the Academy: Theology as an Academic Discipline | p. 14 |
| The Public of the Church: A Sociological and Theological Reality | p. 21 |
| Conclusion: Theology as Public Discourse | p. 28 |
| A Theological Portrait of the Theologian: Fundamental, Systematic and Practical Theologies | p. 47 |
| A Theological Portrait of the Theologian | p. 47 |
| Three Disciplines in Theology: Fundamental, Systematic, Practical | p. 54 |
| Conclusion: Publicness in Fundamental, Systematic and Practical Theologies | p. 79 |
| The Classic | p. 99 |
| Introduction: Systematic Theology as Hermeneutical | p. 99 |
| The Normative Role of the Classics: Realized Experience | p. 107 |
| The Interpretation of the Classics and the Pluralism of Readings | p. 115 |
| The Production of the Classic: A Thought Experiment | p. 124 |
| Conclusion: Systematic Theology as Hermeneutical Revisited | p. 130 |
| Interpreting the Religious Classic | p. 154 |
| The Conversation and Conflict of Interpretations of Religion | p. 154 |
| The Religious Classic | p. 167 |
| The Religious Classic: Manifestation and Proclamation | p. 193 |
| The Realized Experience of Truth in Religious Classics | p. 193 |
| Classical Forms of Religious Expression: Manifestation and Proclamation | p. 202 |
| Interpreting the Christian Classic | p. 231 |
| Introduction: A Methodological Preface | p. 233 |
| The Christian Classic I: The Event and Person of Jesus Christ | p. 248 |
| The Event and the Text: Jesus Christ Witnessed to in the Scriptures | p. 248 |
| The Classic Expressions of the New Testament: A Proposal | p. 259 |
| The Correctives: Apocalyptic and the Doctrines of Early Catholicism | p. 265 |
| Proclamation as Event and Content | p. 269 |
| Narrative in the Gospels | p. 275 |
| Symbol and Reflective Thought: The Theologies of Paul and John | p. 281 |
| The Christian Classic II: The Search for a Contemporary Christology | p. 305 |
| Retrospect: The Forms of the Whole and the Search for Adequacy | p. 305 |
| Some Questions for a Contemporary Christology | p. 317 |
| Conclusion: The Belief in Jesus Christ | p. 329 |
| The Situation: The Emergence of the Uncanny | p. 339 |
| The Theologian and the Situation | p. 339 |
| The Dialectic of the Classics of the Contemporary Situation | p. 345 |
| The Self-Exposure of the Classics to and in the Situation: The Ideal of Dialogue | p. 352 |
| Orientations, Options, Faiths: The Uncanny | p. 355 |
| Christian Responses in the Contemporary Situation: Family Resemblances and Family Quarrels | p. 371 |
| Introduction | p. 371 |
| The Trajectories of the Route of Manifestation | p. 376 |
| The Trajectories of the Route of Proclamation | p. 386 |
| From Manifestation and Proclamation to History and Praxis: Political and Liberation Theologies | p. 390 |
| A Christian Systematic Analogical Imagination | p. 405 |
| Classical Theological Languages: Analogy and Dialectic | p. 405 |
| A Christian Systematic Analogical Imagination: A Proposal | p. 421 |
| Christian Analogical Imagination: Ordered Relationships, God-Self-World | p. 429 |
| Epilogue: The Analogical Imagination | p. 446 |
| Index of Principal Names | p. 457 |
| Index of Principal Subjects | p. 465 |
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