Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter I: Its main representatives -- A. Ernst Fuchs -- 1. The new problematics -- 2. Beyond Bultmann -- a. On demythologization and an existential interpretation -- b. On the experience of faith -- c. On understanding the New Testament -- d. Love is God -- 3. Hermeneutic -- a. Sprachlehre des Glaubens -- b. The language event as saving event -- c. The later Heidegger and the Silent Toll of Being -- d. Self-understanding -- i. The Easter faith -- ii. Vergangenheit des Todes -- iii. Christ as our origin and goal -- B. Gerhard Ebeling -- 1. Justification by faith -- 2. Participation in the essence of God -- 3. God experienced as a question -- 4. The radical questionableness of reality -- 5. God is found in the conscience -- 6. Faith as a vision of totality -- 7. The failure of "objectivity" -- 8. The critical-historical method -- 9. The correlativity of the "subject" and the "object" of faith -- Chapter II: Reaction of some modern theologians -- A. John Dillenberger -- 1. On broadening the new hermeneutic -- 2. On going beyond the new hermeneutic -- 3. The supra-lapsarian instinct -- 4. Dillenberger's "improvements" -- 5. Back to the parmenidean-heraclitean dilemma -- 6. The modern Wesensshchau -- B. Fritz Buri -- 1. The face of our time -- 2. Is there room for faith today? -- 3. Can we speak of God -- 4. Deeper de-objectification -- 5. Kant's three questions -- 6. Back to the Parmenidean-Heraclitean dilemma -- 7. Buri's new Christ -- C. Schubert M. Ogden -- 1. Ogden on Barth's criticism of Bultmann -- 2. Ogden's own criticism of Bultmann -- 3. Bultmann and Parmenides -- 4. Modern man's self-deceit -- 5. On going beyond Bultmann -- 6. Ogden's method and content -- 7. Ogden's "sovereign grace" -- 8. Ogden's "structural inconsistency" -- 9. Back to Fuchs and Ebeling from Ogden via Buri and Dillenberger -- Chapter III: Reaction of some orthodox theologians -- A. D. R. Polman -- 1. Under the spell of hermeneutik -- a. The Aufklarung (1650-1780) -- b. Kant's general approach -- Kant's ideas of autonomy, of abstract rationality and of contingency -- Kant's four rules of hermeneutics -- c. Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) -- Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (1822-1889) -- Ritschl on the Jesus of history -- e. The Christ of "old liberalism" -- f. New directions in hermeneutics -- g. The existential-Kerygmatic hermeneutic of Rudolf Bultmann -- h. The linguisticality of existence -- i. The new quest of the historical Jesus -- j. Robert G. Collingwood on history -- k. New directions in theology: Braaten -- l. New frontiers in theology -- m. Hans George Gadamer -- n. Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- o. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Christ-mystique -- p. Gordon D. Kaufmann -- Kaufmann's dialogue with God -- Kaufmann's dialogue with Malchus -- B. H. M. Kuitert -- 1. Kuitert's writings -- 2. Kuitert's general framework of thought -- a. Kuitert addresses reformed theologians -- The ethical is the non-intellectual -- The content and the packing -- Gerhard Ebeling on faith -- b. Evaluation of Kuitert's views -- Kuitert's great discovery -- Kuitert on the liberty train to Sartre -- The lights go out -- Kuitert's despair -- Kuitert's basic misalignments -- Kuitert's frantic search for objectivity in the light of tradition -- Kuitert's pro-me covenant theology -- Kuitert cries for help from drowning men -- c. Kuitert calls for a summit conference -- 3. Kuitert's opening address -- b. Legitimate subjectivity: tradition -- b. The legitimacy of critical-historical research -- 4. Kuitert's great betrayal -- a. Kuitert capitulates to modern science on the "origins of history" -- b. Kuitert capitulates to the "center" of history -- c. Kuitert capitulates to the modern philosophy with respect to the end of history -- Ernst Bloch: Das Prinzip Hoffnung -- Jurgen Moltmann: The Theology of Hope -- d. Kuitert's reevaluation of death -- e. Summary of Kuitert's views -- Kuitert's view of God -- Kuitert's view of man -- Kuitert's view of Christ -- Kuitert's view of Scripture -- C. S. U. Zuidema -- 1. Zuidema's starting point -- 2. Zuidema on modern humanism -- a. The philosophy of Occam -- b. Pioneers of humanism -- 3. Zuidema on modern existentialism -- a. The "Christian existentialism" of Soren Kierkegaard -- b. Non-Christian existential philosophy -- Karl Jaspers -- Martin Heidegger -- c. Karl Barth existential theology -- d. The structure of Barth's doctrine of creation -- e. From Bultmann to Fuchs -- 4. Zuidema on the new hermeneutic -- a. Fuchs-Ebeling -- b. Kuitert -- What is metaphysic? -- Chapter IV. The new hermeneutic of Holland -- 1. Herman Wiersing -- 2. G. P. Hartvelt -- 3. J. Z. Koole -- 4. F. J. Baarda -- 5. C. Augustijn.