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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: About This Book | |
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| The Subject of This Book | |
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| The Plan of This Book | |
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| The War of the Worldviews | |
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| The Agony of Historical Criticism | |
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| The Precritical Reading of the Bible | |
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| Basic Features | |
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| Martin Luther | |
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| John Calvin | |
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| The Precritical Reading under Threat | |
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| Protestant Scholasticism | |
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| Pietism | |
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| Rationalist Biblical Criticism and Protestant Liberalism | |
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| The War of the Worldviews | |
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| Baruch Spinoza: The Emergence of Rationalist Biblical Criticism | |
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| From Dogma to Death | |
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| Biography | |
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| The Theological-Political Treatise | |
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| Assessment | |
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| A New Method | |
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| Enduring Themes | |
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| Hermann Samuel Reimarus: Pressing the Rationalist Attack | |
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| A Pattern of Warfare | |
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| Biography | |
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| The Apology | |
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| Circumstances of Composition | |
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| The System of Jesus and His Disciples | |
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| Assessment | |
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| The "Historical Head" | |
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| Reason and Prejudice | |
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| Friedrich Schleiermacher: Formation of the Liberal Protestant Tradition | |
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| Is Theology Still Possible? | |
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| Biography | |
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| Christmas Eve: A Dialogue | |
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| Assessment | |
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| The Fragment Hypothesis | |
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| Universal Hermeneutics | |
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| The Challenge of the Intellectual | |
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| Life-of-Jesus Research | |
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| Concrete Christ or Redeemer Idea? | |
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| An Empty Gibbet | |
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| David Friedrich Strauss: The Bible as Myth | |
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| Faith under Siege | |
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| Biography | |
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| The Life of Jesus | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Strauss, Hegel, and Baur | |
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| Focus on the Historical | |
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| Reason Is Divine | |
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| Ferdinand Christian Baur: Historical Criticism in the Shadow of Idealism | |
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| Biography | |
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| The Church History | |
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| The Question of Essence and Sources | |
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| Jesus | |
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| The Antithesis | |
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| The Synthesis | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Legacy | |
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| Identifying the Divine and the Human | |
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| Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann: The Bible as Salvation History | |
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| Pietist Protest against Historical-Critical Method | |
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| Biography | |
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| Interpreting the Bible | |
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| The Occasion | |
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| The "Fact" of Rebirth | |
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| The Task and Method of Theology | |
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| The "Historical Way" | |
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| The "Eternal" Presupposition | |
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| The Relation between the Two Ways | |
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| Assessment | |
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| The Boehme Connection | |
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| The Unacknowledged Source | |
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| Loose Ends | |
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| Ernst Troeltsch: The Power of Historical Consciousness | |
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| Historicism | |
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| Biography | |
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| The Power of Historical Consciousness | |
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| The Task | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Results | |
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| The Guarantee | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Adolf Schlatter: Biblical Criticism and the Act of Faith | |
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| Attack upon Christendom | |
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| Biography | |
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| Getting Free | |
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| Historical Research | |
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| Presuppositions | |
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| The Great Qualifier | |
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| Assessment | |
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| J. Gresham Machen: The Fundamentalist Defense | |
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| "We Have No Strauss" | |
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| Biography | |
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| Christianity and Liberalism | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Rudolf Bultmann: Biblical Scholarship in Crisis and Renewal | |
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| At War with the Worldview | |
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| Contrary Tendencies | |
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| The Advance of Historical-Critical Scholarship | |
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| The Coming of War | |
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| Biography | |
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| New Testament and Theology | |
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| What Is Myth? | |
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| Bultmann and Heidegger | |
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| The Quest for the Historical Jesus | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Myth and Bultmann | |
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| Bultmann and Heidegger | |
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| The Question of Continuity | |
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| Ernst Kasemann: Biblical Theology under the Cross | |
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| Biography | |
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| Biblical Theology under the Cross | |
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| Bultmann | |
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| Cullmann | |
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| Crux sola nostra theologia | |
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| Christian Existence as the Body of Christ | |
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| Christian Existence as the Cruciform | |
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| Christian Existence as Obedience | |
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| Christian Existence and Politics | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Paul Ricoeur: The Risk of Reading the Bible | |
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| The Secular Challenge | |
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| Biography | |
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| Achievements | |
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| Influences | |
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| The Hermeneutical Interest | |
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| Critique | |
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| Idealism | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Historicism | |
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| Existentialism | |
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| Convictions | |
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| The Thing of the Text | |
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| The Function of the Text | |
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| The Wager | |
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| Exegesis | |
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| Paul and the State | |
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| The Symbolism of Evil | |
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| The Parables | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Linguistics and Text | |
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| Text over Interpreter | |
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| Text and Author | |
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| Wager and Transcendence | |
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| Bless the Contradiction | |
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| Brevard Childs: Biblical Criticism under the Discipline of the Canon | |
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| The Postmodern Predicament of Academic Biblical Criticism | |
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| Biography | |
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| The Irritant | |
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| The Prescription | |
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| History and Theology | |
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| Canon as Locus | |
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| Canon and Church | |
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| Canon and Confession | |
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| Nothing but the Text | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Canon and Encounter with God | |
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| Forebears | |
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| The Misapprehension | |
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| The Question of Method | |
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| Two Traditions of Historical Criticism | |
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| The Nagging Question | |
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| The Enlightenment Tradition | |
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| The Augustinian Tradition | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |