Principles of Catholic Theology Building Stones for a Fundamental Theology

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FORMAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY-CATHOLIC VIEW On the Relationship of Structure and Content in Christian Faith The We-Structure of Faith as Key to its Content What Constitutes Christian Faith Today? 15 Baptism, Faith and Membership in the Church¿ the Unity of Structure and Content 27 The Church as the Sacrament of Salvation 44 Structure, Content, Attitudes Faith as Conversion¿Metanoia 55 Faith as Knowledge and as Praxis¿the Fundamental Option of the Christian Credo 67 . Faith as Trust andjoy¿Evangelium 75 Formal Principles of Catholicism Section i: Scripture and Tradition . Anthropological Foundation of the Concept of Tradition 85 Baptism and the Formulation of the Content of Faith¿Liturgy and the Development of Tradition i o i The Creeds of Nicaea and Constantinople: History, Structure, Content 112 Short Formulas of Faith? On the Relationship between Formula and Interpretation 122 Importance of the Fathers for the Structure of Faith 133 Faith and History Salvation and History 153 Salvation History, Metaphysics and Eschatology 171 FORMAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY IN. ECUMENICAL DISPUTE General Orientation with Regard to the Ecumenical Dispute about the Formal Principles of Faith The Ecumenical Situation¿Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism 193 Rome and the Churches of the East after the Removal of the Ban of Excommunication of 1054 203 Elucidations of the Question of a "Recognition" of the Confessio Augustana by the Catholic Church 218 Ecumenism at a Standstill? Explanatory Comments on Mysterium Ecdesiae 228 The Key Question in the Catholic-Protestant Dispute: Tradi¿tion and Suaessio Apostolica Holy Orders (Ordo) as the Sacramental Expression of the Principle of Tradition 239 Sacrifice, Sacrament and Priesthood in the Development of the Church 250 The Priest as Mediator and Minister of Christ in the Light of the Message of the New Testament 267 Catholicity as the Formal Structure of Christianity The Community`s Right to the Eucharist? The "Community" and the Catholicity of the Church 285 Local Ecumenism 299 THE FORMAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE METHOD OF THEOLOGY Questions about the Structure of Theology What Is Theology? The Church and Scientific Theology The Anthropological Element in Theology Faith and Education Faith and Experience The Gift of Wisdom EPILOGUE ON THE STATUS OF CHURCH AND THEOLOGY TODAY Review of the Postconciliar Era¿Failures, Tasks, Hopes Church and World: An Inquiry into the Reception of Vatican Council II