Faith enacted as history
Subtitle: essays in Biblical theology
By: by Will Herberg ; edited with an introduction by Bernard W. Anderson.
Publisher: Westminster Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780664213350
Subjects: Bible -- Theology
Description: Will Herberg, author of Judaism and Modern Man and Protestant-Catholic-Jew and recently retired professor of philosophy and culture at Drew, is a committed Jew who has taught Christians the import of their faith, a biblical theologian who has commented trenchantly on contemporary affairs, and a prophetic radical who has been a harbinger of neo-conservatism. Bernhard Anderson, with Herberg's cooperation, has collected essays, dating from 1943 to 1972, that exhibit the unique range of his thinking and concerns. Much influenced by Franz Rosenzweig and Reinhold Niebuhr, he is a champion of biblical faith, a faith rooted in historical events and to be enacted in the concrete historical present. From this solid vantage he can see the substantial unity of Judaism and Christianity and their linked but distinct vocations; he can discern the challenge posed by the secularization of Christian faith that American civil religion and Marxism represent; and he can affirm the radical relativity of all political programs and movements. Some pieces are quite academic, but most are very accessible and still intellectually fresh. - Kirkus Review
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Will Herberg as Biblical theologian; title: Part one : The posture of faith.; title: Biblical faith as "Heilsgeschichte" : the meaning of redemptive history in human existence; title: Judaism and Christianity : their unity and difference; title: Beyond time and eternity : reflections on Passover and Easter; title: The strangeness of faith; title: A Jew looks at Jesus; title: The Incarnate Word : a Communion service homily; title: Part two : The understanding of faith.; title: Hermeneutics : the mode of interpretation; title: Hegel and his influence on Biblical theology; title: Five meanings of the word "historical"; title: Some variant meanings of the word "myth"; title: On petitionary prayer; title: Objective facticity and the historicity of faith : a new version of the doctrine of two truths; title: The "death of God" theology, and the living God of the Bible; title: Part three : The witness of faith in the world.; title: The Christian mythology of socialism; title: Historicism as touchstone; title: Theological presuppositions of social philosophy; title: Society, democracy, and the state : a Biblical-realist view; title: Christian faith and totalitarian rule; title: Religious revival and moral crisis; title: The Great Society and the American constitutional tradition