General Editors’ Preface / Robert M. Doran
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
1 Understanding and Method: 1 The Notion of Question; 2 The Notion of Science; 3 Two Modes of Human Thought; 4 Method and Its Precepts
2 System and History: 1 Introducing the Question; 2 The Greek Mentality; 3 The Modern Mentality; 4 The Conception of History; 5 Historicism; 6 Historicism [bis]; 7 Art; 8 The Circle of Operations
3 Editorial Report on the Handwritten Notes for ‘De Systemate et Historia’; Operation and Meaning; Are Perspectives True?; Religion and Metaphysics; Phenomenology; Perception; Being; History and System; Modes of Apprehension; The Circle of Operations; More on Art; Historicism; Human Reality; More on Human Reality; Three Notions of Science; The Dynamics of System; Science and the Human Sciences; History A, B, and C; The Problem of a Critical Sacred History; Specialization
4 Report on Archival Notes Relevant to the Spring 1961 Course ‘De Intellectu et Methodo’; Inquiry Concerning the Ideal of Reason; The Naturally Endowed Ideal; More on the Ideal of Reason; Still More on the Ideal of Reason; The Method of Theology; Bibliography; Procedure To Be Followed
Chapter 1: On Method in General ; Theology and Method; Operations in General ; The Operating Subject in General; Objects Considered from a Methodological Viewpoint; Methodological Consideration Itself
Chapter 2: The First Problematic: The First and Second Problematics; Radical Antitheses; Further Reflection on These Various ‘Worlds’; The Theological Problematic Based upon the Antitheses (Worlds); Some General Answers to the Theological Problematic Rooted in the Antitheses
Appendix 1: Introduction to the Notion and the Problem of Method; The Question; The Serial Arrangement of Questions; Ordering the Answers; The Serial Arrangement of the Orderings; The Criterion of a New Ordering; The Problem of Foundation; The Problem of Historicity; The Problem of the Chasm; Towards a Solution to These Problems: A First Step; The Problem of the Chasm: A First Step; The Problem of Historicity: A First Step; The Unity of the Solution
Appendix 2: Items Related to ‘De Methodo Theologiae’: Expression; The Explicit and the Implicit; The Historical Explicit and Implicit; The Theological Problem; Theology; Theological Operations; The Order of Exposition; Hermeneutics Is the Art of Understanding a Text or a Document; The Genesis of Theological Categories; The Human Good; Meaning
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