Theological Essays

Eberhard Jüngel is Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, University of Tübingen, Germany.John B. Webster is Professor of Divinity, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, UK.

• PrefaceAbbreviations and QuotationsDetails of PublicationIntroduction1. Metaphorical Truth2. Anthropomorphism: a Fundamental Problem in Modern Hermeneutics3. The World as Possibility and Actuality4. Humanity in Correspondence to God5. Invocation of God as the Ethical Ground of Christian Action6. Extra Christum Nulla Salus - a Principle of Natural Theology?7. The Church as Sacrament?8. The Effectiveness of Christ WithdrawnBibliographyIndex

These essays combine theological wisdom with the perceptive biblical interpretation and philosophical richness. In many respects, the essay is the form in which Jüngel is at his best. He faces key issues, summarizes positions, develops one or two pivotal insights, and demonstrates wonderful conceptual creativity. This is the mature thought of a major theologian at its most concentrated and accessible.