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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Rediscovering the Self-Disclosure of the Triune I AM: Table of Contents of Series in Narrative Trinitarian Theology

Volume I: Homeward Bound (Part 1): Preparing to Sail upon the Sea of Revelation under the Banner of Trinitarian Orthodoxy
Preface (Gambling On the Life-Shaping Narratives of Human Destiny)
Introduction (Gazing out across the Sea)
Division I:  Heeding the Call to be a Seafarer of Revelation
   Chapter 1: Eternity Beckons Humanity to take a Homeward-Bound Voyage away From a Dying World
A: Ocean of Despair that Separates Mortal Humans from the Shores of Eternity
B: Dawning of Humanity’s Living Hope of going Home to Eternity
 Chapter 2: Heavenly Boarding Call of Eternity Resounds from Harbor of Christian Doctrines 
            A: First Call: Personal Cost to Return to Humanity’s True First Love                  
            B: Second Call: Unconverted Occupants of the Harbor setting aside a Pretense of Faith 
            C: Third Call: Warning to Persevere in Life of Entrusting Faith in Arms of Divine Romance
Chapter 3: Stepping onto the Dock of Trinitarian Dogma intent on Setting Sail
A: Docks of Dogma within the Harbor of Christian Doctrines
B: Exploring these Docks to Arrive at the Dock of Trinitarian Dogma
Chapter 4: The Boarding Call to set Sail from the Dock of Trinitarian Dogma 
A: First Reason: Pursuing Our Eternal Destiny to Intimately Know the Triune I AM
B: Second Reason: Exploring Depths to Distinguish Triune Relations of the God-relationship
C: Third Reason: Mandatory Call to Proclaim Good News from Across the Sea
Division II: Introducing the Vessel of Philosophical Theology
A: Introducing the Ship of Philosophical Theology
B: Introducing the Ship of Theological Philosophy
C: Distinguishing this Ship from others as the One best Suited for our Voyage
Chapter 6: Biblical Case on Reason as Auxiliary to Faith Seeking Understanding
A: Reason not Necessarily Antithetical to Faith in Revelation
B: Demarcating Reason’s ‘Autonomous’ Limits without Revelatory Meekness
Chapter 7: The Proper Role of Passionate Reason on this Ship
A: Call of Eternity Beckons us to Re-evaluate our View of Reason
B: Trusting in Grace-Infused Logic to gain Knowledge of Revelation
Chapter 8: Surveying the Proficient Configuration  of our Sailing Vessel 
A: Touring the Ship’s Mechanics and the Navigational Equipment Onboard
B: Making Headway by the Revelatory Wind of the Spirit
Part 2: Preparing the Ship and Crew for Departure
Division I: Raising Anchor from the Dock of Trinitarian Dogma
Chapter 9: The Anchor that Keeps our Ship from Departing  
A: Held up by Unitarian Protests against Sailing under the Banner of Trinitarian Orthodoxy
B: Exploring the Docks of Trinitarian Dogma that stray too Close to Tri-Theism
Chapter 10: Examining the Monotheistic Paradigm Presented in our Nautical Charts 
A: Probing the Strict Affirmations of Monotheism in the Old Testament
B: Probing the Strict Affirmations of Monotheism in the New Testament
A: Biblically Exhibiting the Tri-Personally Singular (Mono-to-Mono) God-relationship
B: The Substantial Oneness of the Triune I AM: The Divine Tabernacle of Infinity
Division II: What lies ahead in our Voyages together out at Sea
A: Chronicling our Creator’s Self-Disclosure in the Story of Finitude
B: Heading Home by a Chronological Route with a Panoramic View of Revelation
Chapter 13: Briefing the Crew on the Pending Preliminary Voyages out at Sea 
A: Explaining the Prerequisite for the Crew to First Embark on Preparatory Expeditions
B: Training in the Subjective Methods of our Voyages centered on the God-Relationship
Concluding Remarks on the Summons of Eternity
A: Personal Petition to Join the Crew in our Pending Departure


APPENDIX:Pertinent Treatises in Philosophical Theology at the Intersections of Faith & Reason and Religion & Academia
A: The Existential Crises of the Present State of Rationalistic Western Education & A-theistic Science
B: A Phenomenological & Existential Revolution against Overly-Rationalistic Legacy of Western ‘Objectivist’ Education
C: A Biblical Epistemological Case for Common Revelation & Natural Theology
D: Properly Moving from Philosophy to Philosophical Theology to avoid Negative Aspects of Western Rationalism
E: Theocentric-Education grounded on Convictions based on Revelation from the only Supracontextual Outsider’s (“Objective”) Perspective
                               
Volume II: Homeward Bound (Part 2): Homeless Castaways Setting Sail towards the Temple of the Triune I AM
Part 1: Existential & Epistemological Parameters of our Ship, Sights, & Trajectory due to Contextual Creaturehood  
 Division I: [TBD]
Chapter 1: Looking through the Spyglass at the Nearest Destinations of our Imminent Voyage
A: Introducing the Preparatory Stages of the Crew's Hands-On Training: Volume 2
B: Introducing the Preparatory Stages of the Crew's Hands-On Training: Volumes 3-4
Chapter 2: Our Existential Human Situation as Inescapable World-dwellers
A: The Relevance and Impact of Existential Philosophy on our Pending Voyage
B: The Contextualized World-Viewing Befitting Human Word-Dwellers
Chapter 3: Exiled Castaways of Temporality tying to be at Home in a Fallen World
A: Individual Human Situation of Striving for Existential Authenticity in a World of Darkness
B: Establishing Idolatrous Existential-Abodes in Babylonian World-Systems of Temporality
Chapter 4: Homeless Castaways Headed Towards the Tabernacle of the Triune I AM
A: Temporal Self-Resignation of Homeless Nomads in Pursuit of a Heavenly Homeland
B: A Homeward-Bound Voyage for Human-Dwellers of the Temple of the Triune I AM?
Division II: [TBD]
Chapter 5: Humanity’s True Home lies in the Heavenly Temple of the Triune I AM
A: Biblical Exposition on the True House of Yahweh Built-up by Jesus Christ
B: Communion of Agape-Love Fills the Finite Household of the Triune I AM
Chapter 6: Sanctifying Voyage of Yahweh’s Priests Heading Home
A: Single-Individuals Becoming build-Up into a Sanctified Temple of Yahweh
B: Duty of Priests to Re-build the Temple of Yahweh during the Last Days of Temporality
Chapter 7: Glimpse into our Eternal Homeland [Home of Eternity]
A: Kings and Priests: Stewards of the New Creation into Eternity
B: Heavenly Temple in City of New Jerusalem: Fellowship of Triune I AM with His Children
Division III: [TBD]
Chapter 8: Homeward-Bound Voyage Suited for the Existential Nature of the Crew   
A: Proper Subjective Approach to the Knowledge of the Creator
B: The Subjective Nature of our Voyage
A: Untraversable Chasm at the Boundary of the Context of Finitude & the Boundless Domain of Infinitude
B: Voyage as Finite Mariners Restricted to the Ocean of God’s Immanent Self-Disclosure
Part 2: Spiritual Voyage of the Soul to Explore the Metaphysical Ocean of the Invisible God's Self-Disclosure
Chapter 10: Familiarizing the Crew with the Metaphysical Waters of Noumenal Realities
A: Rising above Modern Materialistic Biases by Embarking on this Voyage to Explore Incorporeal Realities
B: Transcending the Limits of the Scientific Method to Discover Noumenal Truths
A: Noumenological Treasures of the Knowledge of the Creator’s Self-disclosures
B: How Finite Mariners can Inwardly Traverse this Ocean by Way of Written Texts 

Volume III: Spiritually Navigating the Sea of Revelation (Part 1): The Nautical Charts of Divine Origin
Division I: The Written Word of God as the Cryptic Nautical Charts of Divine Revelation
A: The Old and New Testament as Divinely Inspired by the Spirit of Truth
B: The Principal Transcript of the Infinite-Finite Dialogue between Heaven & Earth
Chapter 2:  Scripture as the Primary Navigational Guide for the Sea of Revelation   
A: The Cannon of Revealed Supracontextual Truth
B: The Supremacy of these Nautical Charts for Navigating our Homeward Bond Voyage
Chapter 3: Interpretational Crisis Surrounding these Charts in the Age of Scientific Reason
A: Story behind this Modern Hermeneutical Crisis Causing Seafarers to be Adrift
B: Modernity’s Faulty Exegetical-Compasses of Natural Reckoning 
Chapter 4: Interpretational Crisis Surrounding these Charts in Present Post-Modern Age
A: Story behind this Post-Modern Hermeneutical Crisis Causing Seafarers to be Adrift
B: Dire Need to Make a Way Forward for a New Chapter of Theological Interpretation 
Chapter 5: Lost at Sea without Divine Aid in Decoding these Cryptic Charts  
A: Overcoming these Hermeneutical Crises with a New Chapter in Theological Exegesis
B: New Theological Chapter requires a Theocentrically-Epistemic Approach to these Charts
Division II: Living Word as the Chief Navigator of this Sea & the Translational Wind of the Spirit of the Sea
Chapter 6: ‘Let the Inspirer of Scripture Speak for Himself’
A: Interpreting these Charts requires the Enlightening Presence of the Navigator
B: Requisite need for a Divine Translating Wind and a Supernatural Exegetical-Compass
A: Divine Pioneer of a Traversable Seaway into the Classroom of Revelation
B: Indwelling of the Principal Educator of the Language & Ways of the Sea

Volume IV: Spiritually Navigating the Sea of Revelation (Part 2): Spiritual Discipleship from the Spirit of Truth
Chapter 1: Counting the Cost of Living Out the Pedagogical Maritime Virtues
A: Famine of Revelation due to Neglect of the Requisite Seafaring Temperament of Prayer
B: Carrying the Cross of Maritime Discipleship along the Narrow Seaway of Self-Denial
Chapter 2: Pedagogical Maritime Virtues for Catching the Spirit’s Translational Wind
A: Instating the Chief Navigator as the Captain of our Ship with Passionate Devotion 
B: Prayer of a Seafarer for Fresh Daily Baptisms of the Revelatory Fires of the Spirit
Chapter 3: Becoming a Competent Mariner of the Sea by Spiritual Education
A: Divinely Enlightened by the Author and Inspirer of these Nautical Charts  
B: Trained in the Depths of the Holy of Holies to be a Competent Mariner of Revelation
Chapters 4-5?: Divine Aid from Maritime Conveyers of Revelation & Navigational Guides
A: Spirit of Truth as the Omnipresent Revealer and Guide upon the Sea of Revelation
B: Divinely Commissioned Truth-Witnesses Serving as Auxiliary Maritime Intercessors
Division III: Application of Navigational Aids to Nautical Charts for a Successful Voyage
A: Learning how to Decode the Nautical Charts of Revelation by Spiritual Discernment
B: The Indwelling Presence of the Navigator of Revelation
C: Inwardly Trained to be a Competent Spiritual Mariner of the Sea
Chapter 7: Navigating Biblically: Accurately Employing the Nautical Charts upon the Sea
A: Using the Exegetical-Compass of Spiritual Discernment by the Maritime Outlook of the Spirit
B: Directing the Rudder of Grace-Infused Hermeneutics by this Theocentric Compass
Chapter 8: Making Headway on the Sea by the Sanctifying Wind that Empowers a Theologically-Sound Exegesis
A: Piloting Theocentrically by a Mind Renewed by a Supracontextually-Informed Outlook
B: Maintaining a Sanctified Trajectory by Staying in Tune with the Thematical Codex of Revelation
C: Appropriating this Navigational Treatise for the Sake of our Forthcoming Voyage

Volume V: Dawn of Finitude
Introduction: Looking through the Spyglass
Division I: The Dawn of the Word of God's Immanency
Division II: The Dawn of the Breath of God's Immanency
Conclusion: Why God took up Immanency


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