1 What Manner of Man Is the Prophet? 3 --
Importance of trivialities --
Luminous and explosive --
Austerity and compassion --
Few are guilty, all are responsible --
Coalition of callousness and authority --
An assayer, messenger, witness --
Primary content of experience --
Amos and his contemporaries --
A Redeemer pained by the people's failure --
An encounter will save --
Tension between anger and compassion --
How to share disillusionment --
Marriage an act of sympathy --
4 Isaiah: (Isa. 1-39) 76 --
Isaiah and the Northern Kingdom --
Jerusalem rejoices, Isaiah is distressed --
If you will not believe, you will not abide --
Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man --
Sennacherib's invasion of Judah --
There is sorrow in His anger --
At one with His people --
My people go into exile for want of knowledge --
Complacency and distress --
Sorrow and anguish of the Lord --
Hypertrophy of sympathy --
Prophecy not the only instrument --
Emergence of the Babylonian empire --
On the eve of redemption --
My right is disregarded by God --
Who taught Him the path of justice? --
In all their afflication, He was afflicted --
A light to the nations --
Word of our God will stand forever --
There is no regard for man --
For not by force shall man prevail --
Human event as a divine experience --
Contingency of civilization --
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 --
Futility of chastisement --
No word is God's last word --
Inspiration as a moral act --
Nonspecialization of justice --
An interpersonal relationship --
A grammar of experience --
Autonomy of the moral law --
Primacy of God's involvement in history --
1 Theology of Pathos 285 --
Transitive character of the divine pathos --
Man's relevance to God --
God of pathos and the Wholly Other --
Prophetic sense of life --
2 Comparisons and Contrasts 299 --
Self-sufficiency of God --
3 Philosophy of Pathos 318 --
Repudiation of the divine pathos --
Indignity of passivity --
Disparagement of emotion --
Apathy in the moral theory of the West --
Anthropological significance --
Ontological presupposition --
Ontocentric predicament --
Logical presupposition --
Anthropopathy as a moral problem --
Theological presupposition --
Accommodation of words to higher meanings --
Wisdom and the folly of anthropomorphism --
My pathos is not your pathos --
5 Meaning and Mystery of Wrath 358 --
Embarrassment of anger --
An aspect of the divine pathos --
I will rejoice in doing them good --
Secret of anger is care --
Anger as suspended love --
Repudiation of Marcion --
Survival of Marcionism --
7 Religion of Sympathy 393 --
Prophet as a homo sympathetikos --
Sympathy and religious existence --
Meaning of exhortation --
Forms of prophetic sympathy --
Enthusiasm and sympathy --
Pathos, passion, and sympathy --
Imitation of God and sympathy --
8 Prophecy and Ecstasy 414 --
Separation of the soul from the body --
Ecstasy among the Semites --
Ecstasy in Neoplatonism --
A source of insight in Philo and Plotinus --
9 Theory of Ecstasy 428 --
In Hellenistic Judaism --
In rabbinic literature --
10 An Examination of the Theory of Ecstasy 448 --
Extinction of the person --
Deprecation of consciousness --
Privacy of mystical experience --
Ecstasy is its own end --
Heaven and the market place --
Trans-subjective realness --
11 Prophecy and Poetic Inspiration 468 --
Prophecy a form of poetry --
Oversight or inattention --
Disparagement of inspiration --
Poetic and divine inspiration --
Accounts of inspiration --
Modern interpretations --
Elusiveness of the creative act --
12 Prophecy and Psychosis 498 --
Appreciation of madness --
Hazards of psychoanalysis by distance --
Pathological symptoms in the literary prophets --
Relativity of behavior patterns --
Transcendence is its essence --
Prophets are morally maladjusted --
13 Explanations of Prophetic Inspiration 524 --
A technique of persuasion --
"A very simple matter indeed" --
Genius of the nation or the power of the subconscious --
Prophets were foreign agents --
Prophets were patriots --
Derogating the prophets --
14 Event and Experience 545 --
Consciousness of inspiration --
Event and its significance --
Here am I, here am I ... --
Anthropotropism and theotropism --
Form of prophetic experience --
15 Prophets Throughout the World 572 --
Occurrence of prophetic personalities --
Experience of mana and tabu --
Prophecy and divination --
Revelation and prophecy in India and China --
Biblical prophet a type sui generis --
16 Prophet, Priest, and King 606 --
Prophets and the nebiim --
Involvement and concern --
Transcendent anticipation --
Dialectic of the divine-human encounter --
Appendix A Note on the Meaning of Pathos 627.