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One: Mythical Speaking “About” God.- 1. The Rejection of Myths and the “Denial” of God.- 2. The Rejection of Myths and the “Affirmation” of God.- 3. Mythical Speaking as Authentic Speaking “About” God.- 4. Retrospect and Prospect.- Two: the Rejection of Metaphysics and the “Negation” of God.- Analytic Philosophy.- Rudolf Carnap.- Ayer.- Flew.- Hare.- Findlay.- Three: the Rejection of Metaphysics and the “Affirmation” of God.- 1. Kant’s So-called “Agnosticism”.- 2. The Intellectualism and Objectivism of Christian Thought.- 3. The “Overcoming of Metaphysics” in Heidegger.- Four: the Acceptance of Metaphysics and the “Affirmation” of God.- 1. The Objectivistic Tradition: Lakebrink.- 2. The Spiritualistic-Monastic Tradition.- 3. Logical Empiricism.- Five: Hermeneutics of Religious Existence.- 1. The Calling of the Name “God”.- 2. The Proper Character of Religious Language.- 3. Speaking “About” God is Speaking About Man.- 4. Christian Religiousness.- Six: Religious Existence and Metaphysical Speech.- The God of Philosophers.- Rejection of the “Proofs” for God’s Existence by the Religious Man.- “The Conclusion of a ‘Proof’ for God’s Existence Can Never Be True”.- The Metaphysical “Proof” for the Existence of “God”.- Metaphysics in the Sciences.- Regional Ontologies.- Metaphysics in the Strict Sense.- Parmenides.- Affirmation in Negation.- “The Metaphysical in Man”.- “Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”.- Conclusion.