FOREWORD vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
CHAPTER I. KNOWLEDGE AND CERTITUDE
§ 1. How much do we know? 1
§ 2. The defectibility of our thinking 5
§ 3. A transfusion of certitude 7
§ 4. Knowledge of truth and knowledge of reality 13
CHAPTER II. THE REALLY REAL
§ 5. Things seen 19
§ 6. Our ultimate concern 20
§ 7. The challenge of subjectivity 22
§ 8. A narrow empiricism 25
§ 9. The things whereof we are surest 27
§ 10. The test of reality 32
§ 11. God and my neighbour 36
CHAPTER III. THE RANGE OF OUR EXPERIENCE
§ 12. A reductive naturalism 41
§ 13. Non-inferential knowledge 50
§ 14. Non-sensuous perception 52
CHAPTER IV. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF FAITH
§ 15. Reasoning things out 60
§ 16. Hypothesis and verification 61
§ 17. How theological statements are verified 64
§ 18. Or falsified 68
§ 19. How faith is lost 71
§ 20. Is it ever completely lost? 76
§ 21. Some of its vestigial forms 79
CHAPTER V. THE NATURE AND OFFICE OF THEOLOGICAL STATEMENTS
§ 22. Faith as apprehension and response 88
§ 23. The characterization of theological statements: from Aquinas to Kant 93
§ 24. In the nineteenth century 101
§ 25. And among contemporary thinkers 106
CHAPTER VI. ANALOGY AND SYMBOL
§ 26. Analogia entis 113
§ 27. A two-way traffic 122
CHAPTER VII. THE FRAME OF REFERENCE
§ 28. Religious Knowledge as practical and regulative 130
§ 29. The Way 132
§ 30. A way of thinking and a way of acting 140
§ 31. The new age and the new humanity 144
CHAPTER VIII. MEANING AND RELEVANCE
§ 32. Meaning and use 149
§ 33. Relevance 153
§ 34. Relevance and truth 157
§ 35. Dogma and speculation 161
CHAPTER IX. FAITH AND THE FAITHS
§ 36. Lord Gifford's purpose 168
§ 37. Natural theology and natural religion 169
§ 38. The religion of pagans according to Calvin 174
§ 39. According to Dr Barth 177
§ 40. And according to Dr Kraemer 182
§ 41. Comparison and criticism of these views 186
CHAPTER X. SALVATION IN A NAME
§ 42. The Name 189
§ 43. Salvation 195
§ 44. None other name 199
§ 45. The ‘scandal of particularity’ 204
§ 46. But why this name? 209
CHAPTER XI. PROVIDENCE
§ 47. The principle of complementarity 213
§ 48. The principle of indeterminacy 218
§ 49. Providence, chance and coincidence 224
CHAPTER XII. GRACE AND GRATITUDE
§ 50. Fear and love. Worship and service 231
§ 51. Gratitude for grace the dominant note of Christian worship 236
§ 52. And the mainspring of Christian service 241
§ 53. The guidance thus provided 243
§ 54. The wider witness of gratitude 248
CHAPTER XIII. RETROSPECT 251
