The Self-Giving God and Salvation History The Trinitarian Theology of Johannes von Hofmann,9780567025302

The Self-Giving God and Salvation History The Trinitarian Theology of Johannes von Hofmann

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ISBN13: 9780567025302
ISBN10: 0567025306
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-08-20
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary

Hofmann (1810-1877) was one of the most significant theologians of the nineteenth century and perhaps the century's most influential Lutheran theologian. Becker introduces us to Hofmann's trinitarian view of God. According to Hoffman, God freely chose to give God's self out of divine love. Becker's book centers on Hofmann's understanding of history. In Hoffmann's trinitarian kenosis the eternal God has become historical by self-emptying God's self into Jesus. For Hofmann, world history can only be understood within the historical self-giving of the triune God who is love. Thus, for Hoffmann all of history is salvation-history, a kind of history that embraces and fulfills God's purposes in the world.

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Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Abbreviations xxvii
PART I SITUATING JOHANNES VON HOFMANN
Chapter One Hofmann's Life and Work
3(13)
Chapter Two Basic Interpretations of Hofmann's Theology
16(15)
Theological Method
18(4)
Heilsgeschichte
22(3)
Christology
25(6)
PART II HOFMANN'S THEOLOGICAL METHOD
Chapter Three The Object of Theology
31(28)
The Problem of Theological Method in the Modern World
31(3)
The Object of Theology
34(8)
The Epistemology of Theology
42(8)
The Method of Theology
50(9)
Chapter Four Theological Hermeneutics
59(30)
Scripture as Witness to the Christian Tatbestand
59(25)
The Lutheran Confessions as Witness to the Christian Tatbestand
84(5)
Chapter Five Excursus: Hofmann and German Idealism
89(31)
Ranke and Hofmann
91(11)
Hegel and Hofmann
102(8)
Schelling and Hofmann
110(8)
Concluding Appraisal
118(2)
Chapter Six Evaluation and Criticism of Hofmann's Method
120(15)
Positive Features of Hofmann's Theological Method
120(7)
Negative Features of Hofmann's Theological Method
127(8)
PART III HOFMANN'S DOCTRINE OF GOD
Chapter Seven Trinitarian Historicality: The Self-Determining God
135(24)
The Renewal of Trinitarian Theology
136(5)
Hofmann's Way to Knowledge of God
141(5)
The Eternal Trinity Is the Historical Trinity
146(13)
Chapter Eight Trinitarian Historicality and the World of Becoming
159(14)
The Beginning of Creation and the Beginning of History
159(3)
The Coming-into-Being of the Human Being
162(2)
Evil and Sin
164(4)
The Unity of History in the New Human Being: Christ as Beginning, Center, and End of History
168(1)
God's Eternal Will of Love and God's Historical Wrath
169(4)
Chapter Nine A New Way to Teach Old Truth: Trinitarian Kenosis
173(31)
The Theological Context for Hofmann's Trinitarian Kenosis
173(6)
The Self-giving God: Trinitarian Kenosis and Atonement
179(15)
The Atonement Controversy
194(10)
Chapter Ten The Future of Humanity: The Church in the World
204(16)
The Mediation of Faith, Hope, and Love
205(5)
The Goal of Word and Sacraments: Christian Faith and Rebirth
210(2)
Christian Hope
212(3)
Christian Obedience and Love
215(5)
Chapter Eleven The Future of God: Heilsgeschichte and Weltgeschichte
220(13)
Kirchengeschichte and Heilsgeschichte
220(3)
Heilsgeschichte and Weltgeschichte
223(5)
The Eschatological Orientation of Weltgeschichte
228(5)
Chapter Twelve Evaluation and Criticism of Hofmann's Doctrine of God
233(26)
Trinitarian Historicality
233(7)
Kenosis and Atonement
240(4)
History and Eschatology
244(15)
Selected Bibliography 259(18)
Index 277

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