Introduction to the Perennial Classics Edition | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xxi |
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What Manner of Man Is the Prophet? | p. 3 |
Sensitivity to evil | |
The importance of trivialities | |
Luminous and explosive | |
The highest good | |
One octave too high | |
An iconoclast | |
Austerity and compassion | |
Sweeping allegations | |
Few are guilty, all are responsible | |
The blast from heaven | |
The coalition of callousness and authority | |
Loneliness and misery | |
The people's tolerance | |
An assayer, messenger, witness | |
The primary content of experience | |
...The prophet's response | |
Amos | p. 32 |
Amos and his contemporaries | |
God and the nations | |
The anger of the Lord | |
A Redeemer pained by the people's failure | |
Iconoclasm | |
The Lord repented | |
An encounter will save | |
Hosea | p. 47 |
Hosea and his times | |
Political promiscuity | |
Tension between anger and compassion | |
Hosea sees a drama | |
Emotional solidarity | |
Longing for reunion | |
How to share disillusionment | |
Hosea's marriage | |
The marriage an act of sympathy | |
Daath clohim | |
Isaiah: (Isa. 1-39) | p. 76 |
Prosperity and power | |
Isaiah and the Northern Kingdom | |
Surrender to Assyria | |
A covenant with death | |
Jerusalem rejoices, Isaiah is distressed | |
If you will not believe, you will not abide | |
Against alliances | |
Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man | |
Sennacherib's invasion of Judah | |
Confusions | |
The anger of the Lord | |
Divine sorrow | |
There is sorrow in His anger | |
Sympathy for God | |
At one with His people | |
The vision of Isaiah | |
Uncanny indifference | |
My people go into exile for want of knowledge | |
A remnant will return | |
Zion | |
Micah | p. 124 |
Jeremiah | p. 130 |
Complacency and distress | |
The age of wrath | |
God's love of Israel | |
The inner tension | |
The sorrow and anguish of the Lord | |
Sympathy for God | |
Sympathy for Israel | |
The polarity within | |
The hypertrophy of sympathy | |
Prophecy not the only instrument | |
The collapse of Assyria | |
The emergence of the Babylonian empire | |
The fall of Jerusalem | |
Habakkuk | p. 178 |
Second Isaiah | p. 184 |
On the eve of redemption | |
My right is disregarded by God | |
Who taught Him the path of justice? | |
The suffering servant | |
In all their afflication, He was afflicted | |
Because I love you | |
The Lord's oath | |
A light to the nations | |
The word of our God will stand forever | |
History | p. 202 |
The idolatry of might | |
There is no regard for man | |
For not by force shall man prevail | |
The pantheism of history | |
The unity of history | |
The human event as a divine experience | |
The contingency of civilization | |
The polarity of history | |
Strange is His deed, alien is His work | |
Like a stranger in the land | |
A history of waiting for God | |
They shall not hurt or destroy | |
Blessed be My people Egypt | |
Chastisement | p. 238 |
The futility of chastisement | |
The strange disparity | |
The failure of freedom | |
The suspension of freedom | |
No word is God's last word | |
Justice | p. 249 |
Sacrifice | |
God is at stake | |
The a priori | |
Mishpat and tsedakah | |
Inspiration as a moral act | |
Perversion of justice | |
The sense of injustice | |
Nonspecialization of justice | |
The love of kindness | |
The inner man | |
An interpersonal relationship | |
A grammar of experience | |
As a mighty stream | |
Exaltation in justice | |
Autonomy of the moral law | |
The primacy of God's involvement in history | |
Intimate relatedness | |
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The Theology of Pathos | p. 285 |
Understanding of God | |
The God of pathos | |
Pathos and passion | |
Pathos and ethos | |
The transitive character of the divine pathos | |
Man's relevance to God | |
The God of pathos and the Wholly Other | |
The prophetic sense of life | |
Pathos and covenant | |
The meaning of pathos | |
Comparisons and Contrasts | p. 299 |
The self-sufficiency of God | |
Tao, the Way | |
Pathos and karma | |
Pathos and Moira | |
Power and pathos | |
The ill will of the gods | |
The envy of the gods | |
The Philosophy of Pathos | p. 318 |
The repudiation of the divine pathos | |
The indignity of passivity | |
The disparagement of emotion | |
Pathos and apathy | |
Apathy in the moral theory of the West | |
Reason and emotion | |
Emotion in the Bible | |
Anthropological significance | |
The ontological presupposition | |
The ontocentric predicament | |
The logical presupposition | |
Anthropopathy | p. 344 |
Anthropopathy as a moral problem | |
The theological presupposition | |
The accommodation of words to higher meanings | |
The wisdom and the folly of anthropomorphism | |
The language of presence | |
My pathos is not your pathos | |
The Meaning and Mystery of Wrath | p. 358 |
The embarrassment of anger | |
An aspect of the divine pathos | |
The evil of indifference | |
The contingency of anger | |
I will rejoice in doing them good | |
Anger lasts a moment | |
The secret of anger is care | |
Distasteful to God | |
Anger as suspended love | |
Anger and grandeur | |
In conclusion | |
Ira Dei | p. 383 |
The God of wrath | |
The repudiation of Marcion | |
The survival of Marcionism | |
Demonic or dynamic | |
Religion of Sympathy | p. 393 |
Theology and religion | |
The prophet as a homo sympathetikos | |
Sympathy and religious existence | |
The meaning of exhortation | |
Forms of prophetic sympathy | |
Spirit as pathos | |
Cosmic sympathy | |
Enthusiasm and sympathy | |
Pathos, passion, and sympathy | |
Imitation of God and sympathy | |
Prophecy and Ecstasy | p. 414 |
The separation of the soul from the body | |
A divine seizure | |
A sacred madness | |
Ecstasy among the Semites | |
Ecstasy in Neoplatonism | |
A source of insight in Philo and Plotinus | |
The Theory of Ecstasy | p. 428 |
In Hellenistic Judaism | |
In rabbinic literature | |
In the Church Fathers | |
In modern scholarship | |
An Examination of the Theory of Ecstasy | p. 448 |
Tacit assumptions | |
Who is a prophet? | |
Frenzy | |
Merging with a god | |
Extinction of the person | |
The will to ecstasy | |
Deprecation of consciousness | |
Beyond communication | |
The privacy of mystical experience | |
Ecstasy is its own end | |
Heaven and the market place | |
Radical transcendence | |
The trans-subjective realness | |
Prophecy and Poetic Inspiration | p. 468 |
Prophecy a form of poetry | |
Oversight or inattention | |
The disparagement of inspiration | |
The Bible as literature | |
Poetic and divine inspiration | |
Accounts of inspiration | |
Modern interpretations | |
Either-or | |
The elusiveness of the creative act | |
The neuter pronoun | |
Prophecy and Psychosis | p. 498 |
Poetry and madness | |
The appreciation of madness | |
Genius and insanity | |
Prophecy and madness | |
Prophecy and neurosis | |
The hazards of psychoanalysis by distance | |
Pathological symptoms in the literary prophets | |
Relativity of behavior patterns | |
The etymology of nabi | |
Transcendence is its essence | |
The prophets are morally maladjusted | |
Limits of psychology | |
Explanations of Prophetic Inspiration | p. 524 |
Out of his own heart | |
The spirit of the age | |
A literary device | |
A technique of persuasion | |
Confusion | |
"A very simple matter indeed" | |
The genius of the nation or the power of the subconscious | |
The prophets were foreign agents | |
The prophets were patriots | |
Derogating the prophets | |
Event and Experience | p. 545 |
The consciousness of inspiration | |
Content and form | |
Inspiration an event | |
An ecstasy of God | |
Being present | |
The event and its significance | |
Analysis of the event | |
Here am I, here am I ... | |
Anthropotropism and theotropism | |
The form of prophetic experience | |
Prophets Throughout the World | p. 572 |
The occurrence of prophetic personalities | |
Comparisons | |
Older views | |
The experience of mana and tabu | |
The art of divination | |
Prophecy and divination | |
Ecstatic diviners | |
Dreams | |
Socrates' Daimonion | |
The Code of Hammurabi | |
"Prophets" in Egypt | |
Revelation and prophecy in India and China | |
The prophets of Mari | |
The biblical prophet a type sui generis | |
Prophet, Priest, and King | p. 606 |
The deification of kings | |
The separation of powers | |
King and priest | |
Prophet and king | |
The prophets and the nebiim | |
Conclusions | p. 618 |
Involvement and concern | |
God in relationship | |
God as subjectivity | |
Transcendent anticipation | |
The dialectic of the divine-human encounter | |
A Note on the Meaning of Pathos | p. 627 |
Index of Passages | p. 633 |
Index of Subjects and Names | p. 657 |
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