Table of Contents
Preface
Theology
1. Farley: Theologia-The History of a Concept
2. Ogden: What Is Theology?
Scripture and Tradition
1. Origen: The Threefold Sense of Scripture
2. Calvin: With the Aid of Spectacles
3. Mohler; Tradition as the Living Word
4. Hodge: The Protestant Rule of Faith
5. Rahner: Scripture as the church's Book
6. Kelsey: The Function of Scripture
God
1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination
2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit
3. Thomas Aquinas: Language About God
4. Hartshorne: The Divine Relativity
5. Barth: The Humanity of God
6. Tillich: Theism Transcended
Revelation
1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination
2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit
3. Tindal: Reason and Revelation
4. Barth: Revelation as God's Self-Disclosure
5. Bultmann: Revelation and Human Existence
6. Rahner: The Supernatural Existential
7. Pannenberg: Revelation and History
8. Niebuhr: The Revelatory Image
Creation and Providence
1. Augustine: In the Beginning God Created
2. Calvin: God's Providence Governs All
3. Spinoza: Deus Sive Natura, Causa Omnium
4. Hegel: Without the World God Is Not God
5. Ford: Divine Persuasion
6. Tillich: God's Originating, Sustaining, and Directing Creativity
Human Being
1. Augustine: Body, Soul, Will, and the Image of God
2. Schleiermacher: The Human Subject
3. Barth: Christ and Adam
4. Niebuhr: Human Beings as Creatures and Sinners
5. Rahner: Persons as Free and Responsible Subjects
Sin and Evil
1. Augustine: Free Will and Sin
2. Luther: Sin and Grace
3. Tennant: Difficulties in the Classic Doctrine
4. Kierkegaard: sin as Despair
5. Niebuhr: The Pride of Power
6. Ricoeur: Paradox of the Servile Will
7. Farrer: Beyond Augustinian Theodicy
Christ and Salvation
1. The Nicene Creed: Homousios with the Father
2. Athanasius: Truly Human, Truly God
3. The chalcedonian Definition: One Person, Two Natures
4. Anselm: The Logic of Atonement
5. Schleiermacher: The Work of Christ
6. Bultmann: Faith in the Cross
7. Barth: Lord as Servant, Servant as Lord
8. Moltmann: The Crucified God
The Church
1. Cyprian: The Unity of the Church
2. Thomas Aquinas: The Soul of the Church
3. The Second Helvetic Confession: Christ the Sole Head of the Church
4. Schleiermacher: The Fellowship of Believers
5. Gustafson: The Church as a Human Community
6. Parish: The Black Christian Tradition
7. Gutiérrez: Sacrament of Liberation
The Sacraments
1. Cyril of Jerusalem: Christian Initiation
2. Ambrose: The Eucharistic Miracle
3. Luther: Baptism and Faith
4. Kant: Sacraments and the Moral Community
5. Schmemann: Christ Our Eucharist
6. Rahner: The Self-Communication of God
Spirit and the Christian Life
1. Isaac of Syria; Directions on Spiritual Training
2. Thomas Aquinas: Action and Contemplation
3. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: The Mystical Way
4. Law: Call to a Devout and Holy Life
5. Rauschenbusch: Theology and the Social Gospel
6. Williams: Christian Spirituality
The Kingdom of God and Life Everlasting
1. Irenaeus: New Heavens and a New Earth
2. Origen: The Consummation of All Things
3. Augustine: The Eternal Happiness of the Saints
4. Schleiermacher: The Consummation of the church and Personal Survival
5. Bultmann: Jesus Christ as the Eschatological Event
6. Tillich: Kairos
7. Pannenberg: Eschatology and the Experience of Meaning
8. Moltmann: The Resurrection as Hope
The Religious
1. Justin Martyr: In Defense of Christianity
2. Troeltsch: The Absoluteness and Relativity of Christianity
3. Barth: Critique of Christianity as a Religion
4. Panneberg: Christianity in the History of Religions
5. Cobb: Beyond Dialogue
The Christian Paradigm: Alternative Visions
1. Niebuhr: Radical Monotheism
2. Come: The social Context of Theology
3. Gutiérrez: Orthopraxis, Not Orthodoxy
4. Ruether: The Prophetic, Iconoclastic Christ
5. Hick: One God, Many Images
6. Kaufman: Divine Power, Human Responsibilities, and the Nuclear Threat
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Selections
