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Originally published as Fundamentaltheologie 1985 by Verlag Styria, Graz, Austria
English translation copyright 1996 by The Catholic University of America Press 620 Michigan Ave, NE Washington, D.C. 20064 All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Fries, Heinrich, 1911 [Fundamentaltheologie. English] Fundamental theology / Heinrich Fries; translated by Robert J. Daly, S.J. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Faith. 2. Revelation. 3. Church. I. Title BT771.2F7313 1996 230'.01dc20 96-17346 ISBN 0-8132-0862-9 (cloth). ISBN 0-8132-0863-7 (pbk.)
The biblical quotations in this publication are for the most part from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946, 1952 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and used by permission. The quotations from the Second Vatican Council are taken from The Documents of Vatican II, Walter M. Abbott, S.J., general editor, copyrighted 1966 by The America Press, and used with permission.
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CONTENTS
Translator's Foreword
xii
Abbreviations
xix
Foreword
1
Introduction
3
Book One. Faith and the Science of Faith
Part One. Faith
I. The Anthropological Specifications of Faith
10
1 Faith as Personal Act
11
The Meaning of Faith/Belief
11
The Implications of Faith
14
Affirmational (Propositional) Faith
16
Credibility
18
The Transcending Dimension
21
2 Faith in the Horizon of the Question of Meaning
23
The Meaning of Sinn (Sense)
24
Experiences of Sense (Sinn)
25
How Is It That Human Beings Have an Experience of Sense?
27
The Question of the Giver of Sense
30
3 Philosophical Faith
35
Immanuel Kant
35
Karl Jaspers
41
4 The Logic of Act and Transcendence The Theory of Maurice Blondel
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