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• Title Page
• Preface
• Chapter 1: What Is Dogmatics?
• 1.1 Dogmatics as a field of study
• 1.2 Dogmatics and the church
• 1.3 Dogmatics and context
• 1.4 The material and methodology of dogmatics
• 1.5 Basic elements of a Christian interpretation of life
• Chapter 2: How Can We Know Anything about God?
• 2.1 Revelation
• 2.2 The Bible as a testimony to God’s revelation
• 2.3 Scripture and tradition
• Chapter 3: Who Is God?
• 3.1 Christian belief in God and other theistic belief
• 3.2 God as triune
• 3.3 What is God like?
• Chapter 4: The World, the Human Being, and Evil
• 4.1 God and the creation
• 4.2 The human being—created for fellowship with God
• 4.3 Sin and evil
• Chapter 5: Jesus
• 5.1 Jesus—how can we know who he was?
• 5.2 True God and true human being
• 5.3 The significance of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection
• Chapter 6: Receiving Salvation—the Work of the Holy Spirit
• 6.1 What is salvation?
• 6.2 The Holy Spirit: giver of life
• 6.3 Justified by faith
• 6.4 The divine and the human roles in salvation
• 6.5 Life in the Spirit
• Chapter 7: The Means of Grace
• 7.1 Word and sacrament
• 7.2 Baptism
• 7.3 The eucharist
• Chapter 8: The Church—the Fellowship of Salvation
• 8.1 The church and the human race
• 8.2 The church as God’s church
• 8.3 Mission and ministries
• Chapter 9: Hope
• 9.1 The question about the future
• 9.2 What is to happen at the end of the world?
• 9.3 The intermediate state: What happens after death?
• 9.4 Judgment
• 9.5 Hope as the perspective for the Christian interpretation of life
• Glossary
• Bibliography