Index
Adaptation (of the gospel),
Apocalyptic expectation, ,
Arendt, Hannah, ,
Atheism, , ,
Augustine of Hippo, ,
Baillie, John,
Barth, Karl,
Becker, Carl,
Berger, Peter,
Bible: as book of the believing community, ; concepts or principles extracted from, ; critical study of, , , ; discontinuity between human wisdom and biblical revelation (“paradigm shift”), , , ; doctrine of the church, ; on freedom, ; fundamentalism, ; gulf between Bible world and ours, ; hermeneutical circle, , , ; and history, ; on human nature, , ; on politics, , ; as professional property of scholars, ; “rendering” God, ; salvation history, , ; summons to authentic existence, ; Torah, , ; and tradition, ; understood in terms of scientific world-view, , ; as word of God,
Biology, modern, ,
Bosch, David,
Bultmann, Rudolf, ,
Bureaucracy,
Calvin, John,
Calvinism,
Capitalism: atheist, ; as cancer in society, ; ideological warfare with Marxism, ; Novak on, ; and Puritan Calvinism, ; Reformers and rise of, ; unrestrained,
Capra, Fritjof,
Christendom, , , , ,
Christian Faith, The (Schleiermacher),
Christian state, , ,
Church: in Augustine’s City of God, ; biblical doctrine of, ; birth of, ; and Christendom, , , , , ; as community of praise, ; as community in the Bible, ; and Constantine, ; denominationalism of, ; desacralized, ; distinction of church and state, ; and ecumenical movement, , ; and imperial Rome, ; and protest movements, ; and society, , , , , , ; testimony of, , , , , , , , ; and World Council of Churches,
City of God, The (Augustine),
Cohn, Norman,
Constantine, Emperor,
Contextualization,
Conversion,
Corpus Christianum. See
Cosmology, , ,
Crick, F. H. C.,
Critical study of the Bible, , ,
Cross of Christ, , , , ,
Culture: definition of, ; influence on presentation of gospel, ; and Jesus, , . See also
Death,
“Declericalized” theology,
Denominationalism,
Dialogue, missionary, ,
Dietrich, Suzanne de,
Dikaiosune,
Division of labor,
Dooyeweerd, Hermann, ,
Eastern religions: compatibility with scientific world-view, ; in British schools,
Economics: of capitalism, , , , , ; division of labor, ; ever-increasing production, , ; market economy, origins of, ; Marxism, , ; modern science of, ; no business of church, ; Novak’s views on, ; part of Christian ethics, ; and the Reformers,
Ecumenical Institute, Bossey,
Ecumenical movement, ,
Education, ,
Eliot, T. S.,
Enlightenment: doctrine of progress, , ; genesis of modern culture, ; human rights, ; nation-state, ; reason, ; science,
Equality,
Eschatology,
“Facts” (folk-concept): denied by practices of science, ; over against beliefs, ; over against values, , ,
Feuerbach, Ludwig,
Ford, David,
Freedom, ,
Frei, Hans,
Fundamentalism,
Ghazali, al-,
Gibbon, Edward,
Gilkey, Langdon, ,
Gladstone, W. E. ,
God: as Creator and Sustainer of the universe, ; as Holy Spirit, , ; Incarnation, ; kingdom (kingship, reign) of, , , ; knowledge of, , ; as Lord of history, ; “rendered” in the Bible, ; Triune, ,
Gospel: adaptation, ; cannot be proved true, ; communication to Hellenistic world, ; contextualization of, ; cross-cultural communication of, ; culturally conditioned, ; definition of, ; false, ; indigenization of, ; as part of Western culture, , ; resisted by modern Western culture, . See also ;
Gospel according to John,
Hardy, Daniel,
Heretical Imperative, The (Berger),
Hermeneutical circle, , ,
Hertz, Karl,
History, ,
Hocking, W. E.,
Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity, ,
Hudson, Winthrop,
Human nature: and the Bible, , ; fulfilled in relationships, , ; Indian and Greek thought in,
Human rights, ,
Incarnation,
Indigenization,
Ionescu, Ghita,
Islamic society,
Jesus: and the Cross, , , , ; culturally conditioned presentations of, , ; Incarnation of, ; message of, ; and power, ; resurrection of, , , , , , ; sonship of, ,
Johannine writings, ,
Justice: in Augustine’s City of God, ; dikaiosune,
Kingdom (kingship, reign) of God, , ,
Knowledge: “the facts” of, ; of God, ; Laplace’s view of, ; and learning, ; of other persons, , ; reciprocity of, , ; significant patterns of, ; tacit, ; understanding in terms of purpose,
Kraemer, Hendrik,
Kuhn, Thomas,
Kuyper, Abraham,
Labor, division of,
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de, ,
Lay theology,
Love,
Luckman, Thomas,
Luther, Martin,
MacIntyre, Alasdair, , ,
Maritain, Jacques, ,
Market economy,
Marxism, ,
Mead, Sidney,
Mechanical models: in science, , in society,
Millenarian movements,
Missionaries, missions: adaptation of, ; attacks on public life of culture, ; author’s experience of, , ; contextualization of, ; cross-cultural communication of the gospel, , ; dialogue of, ; indigenization, ; missionary encounter with modern Western culture, ; multi-directional,
Modern Western culture: atheism in, , , ; bureaucracy of, ; confidence in scientific world-view, , , ; division of labor in, ; dominance of, ; education in, ; market economy of, ; mechanically organized, ; missionary encounter with, ; origins in the Enlightenment, ; paganism in, ; plausibility structure of, , , , , , ; pluralism of, ; separation of “facts” and values or beliefs, , , , ; separation of private and public life, , , ; teleology of, , , ; urbanization of,
“Moral Majority.” See “”
Munby, Arthur,
Nation-state,
Needs,
Newton, Isaac,
Niebuhr, Richard, ,
Nineham, Dennis,
Novak, Michael,
Paganism,
Paradigm shift, ,
Paul: principalities and powers, , ; speech before Agrippa,
Petty, Sir William,
Physics, modern, , ,
Plant, Raymond,
Plausibility structures, , , , , ,
Pluralism,
Polanyi, M., ,
Politics: and the Bible, , ; and the church, , , , , ; distinction of church and state, ; and eschatology, ; capitalism, , , , ; Ionescu’s definition of, ; and Islam, ; Marxism, , ; “Religious Right,” ; socialism,
Power (political): God’s gift of, ; in New Testament,
Private life. See
Progress, doctrine of, ,
Protest movements,
Public life as separate from private life, , ,
Purpose: absence from Eastern religions, ; in animal world, ; eliminated from scientific world-view, , , ; persistence of concept of, , , ,
Reign of God. See
Relationships, ,
Religion: and science, . See also ; ; ;
Religious experience: Berger’s views on, , , ; as center of unity for world religions, ; Schleiermacher’s views on,
“Religious Right,”
Resurrection of Jesus, , , , , ,
Rights, human, ,
Roman Empire,
Salvation history, ,
Schleiermacher, F., ,
Science: and cosmology, , ; development depends on view of universe as rational and contingent, ; mechanical models of, ; modern biology, , ; modern physics, , , ; purpose in scientific activity, ; and religion, ; significant patterns of, ; social sciences, , . See also
Scientific world-view: essential features of, ; “facts,” , ; modern Western confidence in, , , ; origins of, ; as plausibility structure, , , , ; scientific method applied to Bible, , , , ; scientific method applied to truth-claims of religions,
Scripture. See
Secular state, ,
Social sciences, , ; economics, , , ; politics, ,
Socialism, , ,
Society: in Augustine’s City of God, ; biblical view of, , ; capitalist, , , , ; and Christendom, , , , ; Christian state, , ; and church, , , , , , ; division of labor, ; economic laws of, ; Islamic, ; Marxist, , ; millenarian revolts in, ; Reformers’ views of, ; secular state, , ; socialism, ; welfare state,
“Sphere sovereignty,”
Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, The (Novak),
State: Christian, , , ; distinct from church, ; secular, , . See also ;
Stuhlmacher, P.,
Tawney, R. H., ,
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre,
Teleology. See
Theology: and cosmology, , ; “declericalized” (lay), . See also ; ; ;
Tillich, Paul,
Tolerance,
Tradition,
Trinity, Holy, ,
Values over against “facts,” ,
Visser’t Hooft, W. A.,
Wants,
Warfield, Benjamin,
Welfare state,
World Council of Churches,