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Translation of: Dogmatik.

Translated from the German.

Introduction. Dogmatics in the whole context of theology as science ; The essence of the Christian faith ; God's revelation in Jesus Christ as the basis of the Christian faith ; The bible as source and norm of the Christian faith ; The Church's confession of faith as the decisive interpretation of the Christian faith ; The present lifeworld as the context of the Christian faith

Explication of the Christian understanding of reality. Knowledge of God and of the world ; The being of God (theo-logy) ; God's self-disclosure in Jesus Christ (Christology) ; The presence of God as Holy Spirit (pneumatology) ; The trime essence of God (doctrine of the trinity) ; The created world (doctrine of creation) ; The fallen world (hamartiology) ; The reconciled world (soteriology) ; The completed world (eschatology).