Wrestling With Doubt Theological Reflections on the Journey of Faith

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Modern Problem with Doubt 1 Faith and Doubt in the Modern Era 3 Two Modern Approaches to Faith: Kant and Kierkegaard 7 2. Faith as Assent, Incompatible with Doubt 15 Grammar of Assent 19 The Incompatibility of Faith and Doubt 28 Investigation and Inquiry 32 3. The Word of God: Creating Faith, Excluding Doubt Formation of a Theologian 44 The Faith that Excludes Doubt:Theology of the Word of God 50 The Certainty and Uncertainty of Faith 52 Doubt as a Threat to the Theologian 57 Religion as Unbelief 60 4. The Dynamics of Doubt and Faith 73 Tillich`s Life: The Crisis of Faith and Doubt The Crisis of Doubt 75 The Theology of Ultimate Concern 78 The Dynamics of Faith and Doubt 83 Faith and Courage 90 5. Doubt and the Religious Self 99 Confronting the Religious Self 101 Breakdown and Breakthrough 106 Faith as "Inside Knowledge" 107 Discovering God as the Final Me 111 Doubt as an Essential Element in the Life of Faith 114 6. A Celebration of Doubt 125 The Voice of Authority 127 Discovering Doubt: Invitation to Adventure 131 A Living Faith 135 7. The Context of Doubt: Divine Conversation 145 Divine Speech: Reconsidering the Categories 146 The Questions God Asks 151 God the Conversationalist 157 The Context of Doubt 164 8. Faithful Doubt: Participation in the Divine Conversation 167 Pleading and Protest 169 Lament 174 Sifting the Silence 178 9. Faith in Jesus: Belief and Doubt 183 Believing in Jesus 186 Faith, Doubt, and Freedom in Paul 190 "Little Faith" 193 "Doubting Thomas" 195 "The Double-Minded" in James 198 Suffering Doubt 202 "But Some Doubted" 204 10. Constructive Aspects of Doubt 209 Beyond Belief and Doubt 209 A Community of Faith and Doubt 216 Welcoming the Other 221 Doubt in Search of Understanding 227