General Editor's Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works
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Editor's Introduction to the English Edition, Wayne Whitson Floyd, Jr.
Act and Being
The Problem
A. The Problem of Act and Being, Portrayed in a Preparatory Manner as the Epistemological Problem of an Autonomous Understanding of Dasein in Philosophy
1. The Transcendental Attempt
2. The Ontological Attempt
B. The Problem of Act and Being in the Interpretation of Revelation and the Church as the Solution to the Problem
1. The Interpretation of Revelation in Terms of the Concept of Act
a) The Contingency of Revelation
b) Knowledge of Revelation
c) The Person of Decision
2. The Interpretation of Revelation in Terms of Being
a) The 'Being' of Revelation
b) The Knowledge of Revelation
c) Human Being as "Being in..."
3. The Church as the Unity of Act and Being
a) The Church as the Place Where Dasein Is Understood
b) The Mode of Being of Revelation in the Church
c) The Mode of Being of Human Beings in the Church
d) The Question of Knowledge and the Idea of the Church
C. The Problem of Act and Being in the Concrete Teaching concerning Human Beings "in Adam" and "in Christ"
1. Being in Adam
a) Definition of 'Being' in Adam
b) 'Adam' as I and as Humanity
c) Everydayness, Knowledge of Conscience, and Temptation
2. Being in Christ
a) The Definition of 'Being' in Christ
b) The Definition of Being in Christ through the Past: The Conscience
c) The Definition of Being in Christ by Means of the Future: The Child
Editor's Afterword to the German Edition, Hans-Richard Reuter
Chronology
Bibliography
1. Literature Used by Bonhoeffer
2. Literature Consulted by the Editors
3. Other Literature Related to Act and Being
Index of Scriptural References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Editor and Translator