Presence of God in the World

The Author: Vera B. Profit is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Notre Dame. Particularly interested in modern French and German poetry, her previous publications include: Interpretations of Iwan Goll's late Poetry with a comprehensive and annotated Bibliography of the Writings by and about Iwan Goll (Peter Lang, 1977). She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and, as part of her academic preparation, spent two years studying abroad: one at the University of Vienna, the other at the Sorbonne.

• Contents: Marginalisation of God and the reality of absence – Presumption of absence and the problem of presence – The ambiguity of experience as presence and absence – Epistemology and experience – Epistemology and the credibility of presence – The experience of faith communities in epistemology – A critical comparison of Tillich and Rahner – An incremental contribution to Christological knowledge – Tillich, Rahner and modernity – Postmodern insights of Tillich and Rahner – Postmodern Christology – Postmetaphysical Christology – The incarnation and presence and absence – The death-resurrection event and presence and absence.