Christine Helmer 
Theology and the End of Doctrine [EPUB ebook] 

Chapter 1: Theology and Doctrine

I. Theology between Church and Academy

II. Theology’s Concern with Doctrine

III. The Lure of Eternity

IV. Historicist Shock

V. Linguistic Turn

VI. A Look Ahead

Chapter 2: From Ritschl to Brunner: Neither Mysticism
nor Metaphysics, but the Problem with Schleiermacher

I. What Does Doctrine Mean?

II. Ritschl and the Doctrine of Justification

II.1. Righteousness and Justification

II.2. A New Take on Justification

II.3. Justification and the Problem with Schleiermacher

III. Mysticism to Mediation

III.1. Mediation in Relationship: Spirit

III.2. Mysticism in Relationship: Nature

IV. Brunner and the Word against Schleiermacher

IV.1. The Problem of ‘Ground’: Metaphysics

IV.2. The Problem of Immediate
Self-Consciousness: Mysticism

IV.3. Theology of the Word

V. The Problem with Schleiermacher

Chapter 3: From Trinitarian Representation
to the Epistemic-Advantage Model:
Word, Doctrine, Theology

PART 1

I. From Word to Doctrine

II. Theology and Trinitarian Representation

II.1. Word in the Aftermath of War

II.2. Word in the Crisis of National Socialism

II.3. Word in the Prolegomena to Theological System

II.3.1. Word and the Dialectics of Genre

II.3.2. Word and Dogmatics

II.3.3. Word, Trinity, and Dogmatics

II.4. Doctrine and Ground of System?

PART 2

I. The Epistemic-Advantage Model of Doctrine

I.1. Doctrine as Root Assertion

I.2. Christian Beliefs, Communal Identity, God

I.2.1. Christian Beliefs and the Harmonizing Hermeneutic

I.2.2. Christian Beliefs and Communal Identity

I.2.3. Christian Beliefs and God

I.3. Luther’s Contribution

I.4. Christianity as a Worldview

I.5. Conversion to a Worldview

II. The End of Doctrine

Chapter 4: Language and Reality: A Theological
Epistemology with Some Help from Schleiermacher

I. At the End, a (Tentative) Beginning

I.1. Bible and Doctrine

I.2. Reception and Production

I.3. Qualifying the Help from Schleiermacher

II. Language and Reality in the New Testament

II.1. Jesus and the New Testament

II.2. Mysticism Again

II.3. Total Impression

II.4. Acclamation

II.4.1. Predication and Intensional Logic

II.4.2. Predication in a Linguistic Milieu

II.5. Consciousness, Language, and Doctrine

III. Theological Epistemology and Doctrine

III.1. The Origins of Doctrine

III.2. The Development of Doctrine in Intersubjective Milieu

III.3. Doctrine in a Global Context

III.3.1. Categorization

III.3.2. Construction

IV. From Epistemology to Content

Chapter 5: Acknowledging Social Construction
and Moving beyond Deconstruction: Doctrine
for Theology and Religious Studies
I. Doctrine as Inevitable Social Construction

II. Beyond Deconstruction

III. Getting Clear on the Social Construction of Reality

III.1. Conversation with Religious Studies

III.2. The Return to History

IV. Language, Doctrine, Reality

Christine Helmeris Professor of German and Religious Studies at Northwestern University. She is the editor or coeditor of numerous volumes in the areas of biblical theology, Schleiermacher studies, and Luther scholarship, and is the main Christianity editor of the Encyclopedia of Bible and Its Reception. She is the author of The Trinity and Martin Luther and Theology and the End of Doctrine as well as instructor of the free massive open online course (MOOC): Luther and the West.