The Pastoral Epistles (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries)
Pannenberg offers a powerful argument that "a theological doctrine of God that lacks metaphysics as its discussion partner falls into either a kerygmatic subjectivisim e.g., focusing on proclamation of the gospels or a thoroughgoing demythologization," or both simultaneously. Equally, metaphysics depends upon theology: "philosophical reflection has been related from the outset to a religious awareness of the divine which preceded it historically." Pannenberg, a leading contemporary theologian, refers to a wide spectrum of historical and modern opinion from both disciplines, while addressing issues of subjectivity and action, anticipation and finitude, part and whole.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.