Myth and Metaphysics - Luijpen, W. A.

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One: Mythical Speaking About God.- 1. The Rejection of Myths and the Denial of God.- 2. The Rejection of Myths and the Affirmation of God.- Bultmann.- Vergote.- 3. Mythical Speaking as Authentic Speaking About God.- Gusdorf.- 4. Retrospect and Prospect.- Two: the Rejection of Metaphysics and the Negation of God.- Analytic Philosophy.- Rudolf Carnap.- Ayer.- Flew.- Hare.- Findlay.- Three: the Rejection of Metaphysics and the Affirmation of God.- 1. Kant's So-called Agnosticism.- Synthetic a Priori Judgments.- Space and Time as a Priori Sense Forms.- Justification of the Possibility of Mathematics.- The Objective Validity of the a Priori Forms of Sense Experience and the in Itself.- Sense Experience and Thought.- Condemnation of Metaphysics.- Interlude.- Rational Faith.- Retrospect.- 2. The Intellectualism and Objectivism of Christian Thought.- The Core of the Intellectualistic and Objectivistic Conception of Faith.- The Temptation of Christian Thought to be Objectivistic and Intellectualistic.- The Objectivism of Scholastic Thought.- 3. The Overcoming of Metaphysics in Heidegger.- The Approach to Being.- Forgetfulness of Being.- Back to the Ground of Metaphysics.- Being as Initiative and Mittence (Geschick).- The Reversal.- The God of Metaphysics.- The Godly God.- Four: the Acceptance of Metaphysics and the Affirmation of God.- 1. The Objectivistic Tradition: Lakebrink.- 2. The Spiritualistic-Monastic Tradition.- 3. Logical Empiricism.- Empiricism and Rationalism.- The Principle of Verification.- Interlude : Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy.- Language Games.- The Religious Use of Language.- Austin and Evans.- Five: Hermeneutics of Religious Existence.- 1. The Calling of the Name God.- Situations of Existence.- Calling the Name God and Describing.- Anthony Flew's Parable.- No Flat Descriptions.- 2. The Proper Character of Religious Language.- The Symbolic Use of Language.- Object Language and More: Ian T. Ramsey.- 3. Speaking About God is Speaking About Man.- Barth Versus Bultmann.- Feuerbach.- Carl Jung.- Is Jung Agnostic?.- Unavoidable Misunderstandings About Jung's Position.- The Self of Religious Self-understanding.- 4. Christian Religiousness.- Belief in Statements.- Meaningless Questions and Opinion Polls.- Christian Faith as a Way of Existence.- I Believe in the Cross and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.- My Father is Stronger Than the Mayor.- Old and New Ways of Speaking About God.- Prospective.- Six: Religious Existence and Metaphysical Speech.- The God of Philosophers.- Rejection of the Proofs for God's Existence by the Religious Man.- The Conclusion of a 'Proof' for God's Existence Can Never Be True.- The Metaphysical Proof for the Existence of God.- Metaphysics in the Sciences.- Regional Ontologies.- Metaphysics in the Strict Sense.- Parmenides.- Affirmation in Negation.- The Metaphysical in Man.- Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?.- Conclusion.