This volume contains thirty essays written in honor of Charles Hartshorne. The papers are divided into four sections: The Current Status of Metaphysics, Studies in Whiteheadian Philosophy, Studies in Metaphysics and Logic, and Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Although many of the essays do not focus directly on Hartshorne's thought, two of the most interesting do center on his theological concerns. They are Shubert Ogden's "Bultmann's Demythologizing and Hartshorne's Dipolar Theism" and J. N. Findlay's "Reflections on Necessary Existence. Included (...) in the book are two bibliographies, one noting the published works of Hartshorne and the other listing writings by and about Whitehead published in languages other than English.—J. K. R. (shrink)

This biographical sketch of Kierkegaard goes far in revealing the chief psychological features that influenced his writings. Considerable emphasis is placed on Kierkegaard's relations with his father and Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard is pictured primarily as a melancholy, guilt-ridden person, who was plagued by his own imperfections before God. Considerable use is made of Kierkegaard's writings, but little is said about the role and content of the devotional writings and the religious discourses. The book includes a small glossary of Kierkegaardian terms.—J. (...) K. R. (shrink)

Lönning suggests that theology has long been faced with the problem of bringing Christian revelation and human culture and reason into relation without distortion of the Christian gospel. At the present time, Lönning sees this dilemma arising out of the confrontation of traditional Christian claims with those of existentialism and demythologized interpretations of Scripture, especially in regard to the issues of the nature of God's revelation in Christ and man's sinfulness and salvation. Lönning is critical of a demythologized and existentialized (...) Christian faith, claiming that faith must be more historically grounded than Bultmann allows, and that existential self-estrangement must be traced back to a fundamental distortion of man's relation to God. These remarks about contemporary theology are couched in an historical setting that includes essays on Luther, Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche—J. K. R. (shrink)