The Mystery of Existence: Philosophy of Religion and the Existential Turn

Ingolf U. Dalferth

doi:10.5771/9783374079261

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-374-07925-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-374-07926-1
Publisher: EVA, Leipzig
Language: English
Pages: 306
Product type: Book Titles

1. Preface No access
2. Table of Contents No access
1. 1. 1.1 Contemporary Philosophy of Religion No access
  2. 1.2 Philosophy of Religion and Self-knowledge No access
  3. 1.3 Theology as Anthropology and vice versa No access
  4. 1.4 Philosophical Anthropology as Existential Philosophy No access
  5. 1.5 The Gap of Identity No access
  6. 1.6 The Significance of the First Person No access
  7. 1.7 The Philosophical Idea of God No access
1. 1. 1.1 From the Anthropological to the Existential Turn No access
  2. 1.2 Kant’s Questions No access
  3. 1.3 Incomprehensible No access
  4. 1.4 God as Unground and Primordial Ground No access
  5. 1.5 The Ambiguity of Human Reason No access
  6. 1.6 The Task and Dangers of Human Self-Creation No access
  7. 1.7 From Rational Animal to Creature No access
  8. 1.8 The Ideal of Humanity No access
2. 1. 2.1 Creature and Creator No access
  2. 2.2 Deep Passivity and Existential Choice No access
  3. 2.3 Finitude and Fate No access
  4. 2.4 The Priority of Existence No access
  5. 2.5 God and the Asymmetry of Existence No access
  6. 2.6 More Than Meets the Eye No access
  7. 2.7 The Living Statue of God No access
  8. 2.8 In God’s Presence No access
3. 1. 3.1 The Ontological Priority of God No access
  2. 3.2 Something Necessary? No access
  3. 3.3 From the Concept to the Idea of God No access
  4. 3.4 From the Science of Being to the Science of Real Possibility No access
  5. 3.5 The Anthropological Turn No access
  6. 3.6 Freedom, God, and Immortality No access
4. 1. 4.1 The Priority of Feeling No access
  2. 4.2 The Immediate Presence of Undivided Existence in its Entirety No access
  3. 4.3 Absolute Dependence as Reality Index No access
  4. 4.4 The Hermeneutical Structure of The Christian Faith No access
  5. 4.5 The Character of The Christian Faith No access
  6. 4.6 The Structure of the First Edition of the Christian Faith No access
  7. 4.7 The Changes of the Second Edition No access
  8. 4.8 The Revision of the Introduction No access
1. 1. 1.1 Experience and Experiencing No access
  2. 1.2 The Insufficiency of Concepts No access
  3. 1.3 Theoretical Problems and Existential Questions No access
  4. 1.4 Knowing that One Doesn’t Know No access
  5. 1.5 Conceptual Narratives No access
  6. 1.6 From the Mind to the Genes No access
  7. 1.7 Aporia Between Self-Creation and Self–Abolition No access
  8. 1.8 The Deeper Anthropological Insights of Modernity No access
  9. 1.9 From Is to Ought No access
2. 1. 2.1 Limits, Boundaries, Borders, and Other Restrictions No access
  2. 2.2 The Search for Meaning No access
  3. 2.3 Technology and Crossing Boundaries No access
  4. 2.4 Ethical Challenges No access
  5. 2.5 The Orientational Power of Narratives No access
  6. 2.6 From Narratives to Narrating No access
  7. 2.7 Fragile Boundaries No access
3. 1. 3.1 Demythologization vs. Demythization No access
  2. 3.2 Beyond Narratives and Counter-Narratives No access
  3. 3.3 From Narratives to Existence No access
  4. 3.4 Kant’s Critique of the Critique of Prejudice No access
  5. 3.5 Thinking For Oneself vs. Disposing of Oneself No access
  6. 3.6 Learning to Think for Oneself No access
  7. 3.7 Three Types of Identity: Sameness, Selfhood, and Creatureliness No access
  8. 3.8 Being a Creature and Becoming Human No access
4. 1. 4.1 The Comedy of the Absurd No access
  2. 4.2 The Logic of the Absurd No access
  3. 4.3 Philosophy and Theology No access
  4. 4.4 Christian Discourse on Creation No access
  5. 4.5 Real Possibility and Creation No access
  6. 4.6 Absurd Existence No access
  7. 4.7 Execution vs. Narrative No access
  8. 4.8 Logic, Comedy and Tragedy of the Absurd No access
  9. 4.9 Theological Alternatives No access
  10. 4.10 Living With the Absurd No access
1. 1. 1.1 Kierkegaard’s Request No access
  2. 1.2 The Idea of a Single Individual No access
  3. 1.3 Becoming a Single Individual No access
  4. 1.4 The Foundation of Possibility No access
  5. 1.5 Passion and Passivity No access
2. 1. 2.1 Philosophy and the Idea of God No access
  2. 2.2 From Choosing Between Options to Modes of Acting No access
  3. 2.3 Freedom as the Power to Realize the Good No access
  4. 2.4 From Divine Freedom to Human Autonomy No access
  5. 2.5 The Reality of Ideas No access
  6. 2.6 Sin and Radical Evil No access
  7. 2.7 The Predicament of Human Existence No access
3. 1. 3.1 From Theodicy to Anthropodicy No access
  2. 3.2 The Reality of Evil No access
  3. 3.3 Understanding Evil No access
  4. 3.4 Christian Accounts of Evil No access
  5. 3.5 The Analysis of Evil No access
  6. 3.6 Can We Do Evil on Purpose? No access
  7. 1. A. Forms of Despair No access
    2. B. Despair and Sin No access
    3. C. Despairing Over Oneself No access
  8. 3.8 The Root of Despair: Boredom No access
  9. 3.9 The Root of Boredom: Anxiety No access
  10. 3.10 Evil and Sin No access
1. 1. 1.1 The Experience of not Experiencing God No access
  2. 1.2 Experience of God? No access
  3. 1.3 Creation and Creator No access
  4. 1.4 A New Experience with God No access
2. 1. 2.1 The Power of Love No access
  2. 2.2 Divine Love as Root Metaphor No access
  3. 2.3 The Creativity of Divine Love No access
  4. 2.4 The Reality of Love as the Actuality of the Possible No access
  5. 2.5 Finite Existence and Hope in the Possibility of the Good No access
Sources and Abbreviations No access Pages 297 - 298
Bibliography No access Pages 299 - 306