Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. In Defense of Theology
4. How is Theology Possible? 2
5. The Service of Theology 18
6. Some Philosophical Presuppositions
7. Feeling and Understanding 30
8. Death and its Existential Significance 44
9. Selfhood and Temporality 58
10. The Language of Being 78
11. Existential Method in Theology
12. The Existential Approach to Theology 98
13. Christian Existentialism in the New Testament 114
14. Existentialism and the Christian Vocabulary 126
15. History and the Christ of Faith 138
16. Demythologizing and the Gospel 152
17. Some Other Approaches Considered
18. A New Kind of Demythologizing? 170
19. The Natural Theology of Teilhard De Chardin 182
20. Existential Motives in Catholic Theology 194
21. Applications to Particular Doctrines
22. Demonology and the Classic Idea of Atonement 208
23. True Life in Death 228
24. The Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost 246
25. Index 274