Church Conflicts – The Cross, Apocalyptic, and Political Resistance

Ernst Käsemann (1906-98) was professor of New Testament at the Universities of Mainz, Göttingen, and Tübingen.Ry O. Siggelkow (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is director of initiatives in faith and praxis in the theology department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.Roy A. Harrisville (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is professor emeritus of New Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• ContentsForeword by James Hal ConeEditor's Introduction by Ry O. SiggelkowTranslator's PrefaceAuthor's Preface (1982)1. Aspects of the Church2. Primitive Christian Conflicts over the Freedom of the Congregation (1979)3. On the Ecclesiological Use of the Key Words "Sacrament" and "Sign" (1974)4. "Jesus Christ Frees and Unites" (1975)5. The Presence of the Crucified (1967)6. The Place That Cannot Be Surrendered (1977)7. On the Way toward Abiding (1977)8. The Appeal to Reason (1977)9. Guests of the Crucified (1979)10. Presence of Mind (1969)11. Love, Which Rejoices in the Truth (1972)12. The Proclamation of the Cross of Christ in a Time of Self-Deception (1974)13. Cross and Healing Activity (1974)14. The Healing of the Possessed (1978)15. Meaning and Problematic of the 1981 Kirchentag Motto (1980)16. The Eschatological Royal Rule of God (1980)17. Where Eternal Life Begins on Earth (1981)18. What I, as a German Theologian, Unlearned in Fifty Years (1981)Indexes