Foundations of Christian faith : an introduction to the idea of Christianity / Karl Rahner ; translated by William V. Dych.

Translation of: Grundkurs des Glaubens.

I: The Hearer of the Message -- 1. The Interlocking of Philosophy and Theology -- 2. Man as Person and Subject -- 3. Man as Transcendent Being -- 4. Man as Responsible and Free -- 5. The Question of Personal Existence as a Question of Salvation -- 6. Man as Dependent -- II: Man in the Presence of Absolute Mystery -- 1. Meditation on the Word “God” -- 2. The Knowledge of God -- 3. God as Person -- 4. Man’s Relation to His Transcendent Ground: Creatureliness -- 5. Finding God in the World -- III: Man as a Being Threatened Radically by Guilt -- 1. The Topic and Its Difficulties -- 2. Man’s Freedom and Responsibility -- 3. The Possibility of a Decision against God -- 4. “Original Sin” -- IV: Man as the Event of God’s Free and Forgiving Self-Communication -- 1. Preliminary Remarks -- 2. What Does the “Self-Communication of God” Mean? -- 3. The Offer of Self-Communication as “Supernatural Existential” -- 4. Towards an Understanding of the Doctrine of the Trinity -- V: The History of Salvation and Revelation -- 1. Preliminary Reflections on the Problem -- 2. The Historical Mediation of Transcendentality and Transcendence -- 3. The History of Salvation and Revelation as Coextensive with the Whole of World History -- 4. On the Relationship between the History of Universal, Transcendental Revelation and Special, Categorical Revelation -- 5. On the Structure of the Actual History of Revelation -- 6. A Summary of the Notion of Revelation --
VI: Jesus Christ -- 1. Christology within an Evolutionary View of the World -- 2. On the Phenomenology of Our Relationship to Jesus Christ -- 3. Transcendental Christology -- 4. What Does It Mean to Say: “God Became Man”? -- 5. On the Theological Understanding of the History of the Life and Death of Jesus of Nazareth -- 6. The Theology of the Death and the Resurrection of Jesus -- 7. The Content, Permanent Validity and Limits of Classical Christology and Soteriology -- 8. On the Question of New Approaches to Orthodox Christology -- 9. The Personal Relationship of a Christian to Jesus Christ -- 10. Jesus Chris in Non-Christian Religions -- VII: Christianity as Church -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Church as Founded by Jesus Christ -- 3. The Church in the New Testament -- 4. Fundamentals of the Ecclesial Nature of Christianity -- 5. An Indirect Method for Showing the Legitimacy of the Catholic Church as the Church of Christ -- 6. Scripture as the Church’s Book -- 7. On the Church’s Teaching Office -- 8. The Christian in the Life of the Church -- VIII: Remarks on Christian Life -- 1. General Characteristics of Christian Life -- 2. The Sacramental Life -- IX: Eschatology -- 1. Presuppositions for Understanding Eschatology -- 2. The One Eschatology as Individual Eschatology -- 3. The One Eschatology as Collective Eschatology