Changing Christian Paradigms and their Implications for Modern Thought Book

	Preface
I	The Problem that we face?	1
Pt. I	God and the World: How Biblical and Early Church Ideas Changed in the West
II	The Old Testament Understanding of the Relationship of God and the World	19
	The Wisdom Literature of Israel	24
	Modern Understandings of the Old Testament	33
III	Jewish and Greek Conceptions of God and the World	36
IV	Christ in his Contemporary Setting	43
V	God and the World: the Early Church Fathers	53
	The Pre-Augustinian Understanding of God in Relation to the World	53
	The Idea of Developing Participation in the Life of God	57
	The Pre-Augustinian Idea of the Incarnation	61
	The Augustinian Understanding of God in Relation to the World	63
	The Pre-Augustinian Understanding of Sin	66
	The Augustinian Understanding of Sin and of the Nature of the Church	68
VI	Changes in the Mediaeval Conception of God	72
	The Augustinian Separation of God and the World	72
	Mediaeval Developments of Augustinianism	75
	Aristotelianism	80
	The Trend Continues: the Reaction Against Aristotelianism	84
	Later Mediaeval Developments	87
VII	Renaissance and Reformation	91
VIII	Later Developments in Understanding God and the World	102
	The Heirs of the Reformation	102
	The Age of Reason and the Heirs of Kant	105
	Some Features of the Current Scene	108
	The Conflicting Pressures for Fragmentation and Unity	110
Pt. II	God and the World: Some Implications of the Changes Between Biblical and Early Church Ideas and Those of the West
IX	The Concept of God and his Relationship to the World	114
X	Creation ex nihilo	123
XI	The Idea of God's 'Choosing'	134
	The Incoherence of the Idea of God's 'Choosing'	134
	The Implications of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle	140
XII	The Will of God and Emanation	146
XIII	The Trinity and the Limits of Self-Contradiction	155
	The Early Patristic Trinity	155
	The Limits of Self-contradiction or Self-consistency in God	157
XIV	The Augustinian-Western Trinity	169
XV	Some Contrasts in Implications of the Early Patristic and Western Pictures	175
	Some Implications of the Dominant Western Picture	175
	Other Western Insights	182
XVI	Redemption Paideia and the Church	188
	Redemption and Paideia	188
	The Role of the Church	194
Pt. III	God and the World: Confirmation of Biblical and Early Church Ideas in Modern Science and their Relevance to Survival of Death and Jesus Christ
XVII	The Nature and Implications of the Fall	199
	The Nature and Scope of Sin	199
XVIII	The Nature and Development of Order	207
	The Need for Openness to Development of Order	209
	The Nature of the Creative Process	213
	The Call of Love	217
	The Demands of Faith	219
XIX	Chance and Providence	221
XX	Physical Mental and Spiritual	225
XXI	Mind in its Personal and Social Settings	233
	The Structuring of Mind	233
	Materialism as 'Metaphysical' and a Science of God	237
	The Relevance of Thomas Nagel's The View from Nowhere	239
XXII	The Relevance of F A Hayek and Classical Liberalism	246
XXIII	The Transience of the Physical World	257
XXIV	Memory	264
XXV	The Mind of God: I	275
XXVI	The Mind of God: II	290
	Survival of Death	298
XXVII	Jesus Christ	303
	The Jewish Background to the Reception of Jesus as Divine	303
	Some Constraints on the Personal Development of Jesus	306
	The Heart of the Gospel	307
	The Personal Development of Jesus	313
	The Transition from Man to The Man	317
	The Effect of the Crucifixion	320
	The Exalted Christ	322
XXVIII	Coda	331
	Select Bibliography	335
	Index	340