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• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Introduction
• Chapter 1 Thoughtful Conversation about God
• a) Theology: Thoughtful conversation about God
• b) Theology: A basic human conversation
• c) Theology: A confused conversation?
• d) Theology: A conversation about meaning
• e) Theology: A conversation across time
• f) Theology as an open conversation
• g) Theology and personal faith
• h) Theology as history, interpretation and paradox
• Summary
• Part 2 Theology of Creation and Covenant
• Chapter 2 Genesis: God, Creation and Humanity
• a) The Bible: An inspired library
• b) In the beginning
• c) A Dam-burst of Theology
• d) Introducing Adam and Eve
• e) The poem of the Fall
• f) The loss of communion
• g) The Battles of the Sexes
• h) East of Eden
• i) Postscript: Authors, editors and Star Wars
• Summary
• Chapter 3 The Torah: Covenant, Exodus and the Law
• a) The Bible and Christian interpretation
• b) Abraham and monotheism
• c) Fraternal rivalry from Isaac to Joseph
• d) Moses and YHWH: The rebel meets the holy
• e) The Divine Name
• f) Exodus
• g) Habiru and ritual identity
• h) Ten words of freedom
• i) Moses and Torah
• Summary
• Chapter 4 Nebi’im: Prophets, Kings and Covenant
• a) Theology of covenant
• b) Covenant and violence
• c) Covenant and kingship
• d) Covenant and the prophets
• e) Injustice and infidelity
• f) Invasion and salvation
• g) Josiah and the Deuteronomist
• h) Theology of exile
• i) Colonization and later prophecy
• Summary
• Chapter 5 Ketubim: Priests,Poets, Wisdom
• a) Ketubim and Theology
• b) Priestly power and the second Temple
• c) Ketubim and prayer
• d) Ketubim as Proverbs
• e) Ketubim and suffering
• f) Ketubim and cynicism
• g) Ketubim and love
• h) Ketubim and welfare
• i) Ketubim – triumph of the weak
• j) Ketubim and apocalyptic
• k) Colonization and Messianic expectation
• Summary
• Part 3 Theology of the Jesus Event
• Chapter 6 Gospels: Theology of Jesus as Messiah
• a) Theology on the edge
• b) Qumran and messianic expectation
• c) John the Baptizer
• d) The Gospels of Christ
• e) One Gospel, four flavours
• f) Messiah as title
• g) Messiah as servant
• Summary
• Chapter 7 The Theology of the Kingdom
• a) The preaching of the Kingdom
• b) Good news or Bad news?
• c) Parables and a paradigm shift
• d) On originals, allegories and context
• e) Jesus and the new mind
• f) Marvels and miracles
• g) The new Moses
• h) Abba father – the Lord’s Prayer
• i) Kingdom: Vocation not location
• Summary
• Chapter 8 Death and Resurrection
• a) The entry into Jerusalem
• b) The cleansing of the Temple
• c) Revolutionary Messiah?
• d) The Last Supper
• e) Gethsemane
• f) Trial
• g) Crucifixion – Good Friday
• h) Death – Holy Saturday
• i) The empty tomb
• j) Apparitions
• Summary
• Chapter 9 The Jesus Movement in the Acts of the Apostles
• a) Good news – the sequel
• b) Ascension as essential
• c) Pentecost
• d) The kerygma
• e) Life in common
• f) Persecution – the death of Stephen
• g) Paul, Peter, James and the Council of Jerusalem
• h) The kerygma reaches Rome
• Summary
• Chapter 10 Paul
• a) Paul: Global citizen and religious revolutionary
• b) Damascus: Conversion, call or conundrum?
• c) The Church as Body of Christ
• d) Paul as a resurrection theologian
• e) Paul and justification by faith
• f) Paul on the futility of works and the Law
• g) Paul’s life is a mission to outsiders
• h) Paul and the Theology of Love
• Summary
• Chapter 11 John as Theologian
• a) The writings of John
• b) Overview and undertones
• c) Timelines and differences
• d) Themes of the end
• e) The Beloved disciple: Man, woman or committee?
• f) Sitz im Leben – Expulsion from the synagogue?
• g) The Man born blind
• h) Jewish themes in John
• i) Incarnation
• j) The image of God: Adam remade
• Summary
• Part 4 Theology in the Classical Period
• Chapter 12 Canon: Scriptural Basis of Theology
• a) Canon – a collection of unity and diversity
• b) Canon – patterning an explosion
• c) The fall of Jerusalem and the Canon
• d) Canon and Christian persecution
• e) Apocalypse – summing up the Canon
• f) Authorship and the Canon
• g) Marcion blasts the Canon
• h) Epilogue – the Bibles of the Christian tradition
• Summary
• Chapter 13 Kerygma to Creeds
• a) Kerygma to Creed
• b) Creeds in the Canon
• c) Creeds and Baptism
• d) The Rule of faith: Creeds in the community
• e) Hellenization of the Gospel?
• f) Light from light: Justin as the first theologian
• g) The Nicene Creed
• Summary
• Chapter 14 Councils and Controversy
• a) Councils, controversy and Christianity
• b) Begotten not made
• c) Tertullian: One God, Three persons, Trinity
• d) Arius
• e) The Council of Nicaea
• f) The Council of Constantinople
• g) Ephesus 431
• h) Chalcedon 451
• Summary
• Chapter 15 Ecclesiology: New Israel, New Jesus, New Empire?
• a) New Israel, New Kingdom
• b) New Jesus: The Body of Christ
• c) New Order
• d) New Calvary
• e) The Diaspora, Greeks and God fearers
• f) Monasticism
• g) Church growth: Stark realities
• h) Eastern Emperor, Western Pope
• Summary
• Chapter 16 Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas
• a) Augustine of Hippo: Restless heart
• b) The City of God
• c) Augustine and Pelagius
• d) Anselm on the God thought (the ontological argument)
• e) Anselm on Redemption: Why did God become man?
• f) Aquinas: Rebel with a cause
• g) Summa Theologiae: The five ways
• h) Baptizing Aristotle and drowning YHWH?
• Summary
• Chapter 17 Sacraments
• a) Signs of love
• b) Baptism
• c) Confirmation
• d) Eucharist
• e) Penance
• f) Extreme unction
• g) Marriage
• h) Holy Orders
• Summary
• Chapter 18 Ecclesiology in Three Dimensions
• a) One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic?
• b) The Great Schism
• c) Crusades
• d) The European reform: Martin Luther
• e) The Swiss Reform: Zwingli and Calvin
• f) English reform
• g) Nationalized Theology and Catholic reform
• Summary
• Part 5 Theology in Modern and Contemporary Dialogue
• Chapter 19 Theology ‘versus’ Philosophy?
• a) Descartes and the Enlightenment
• b) Hume and Empiricism
• c) Kant and the unknowable God
• d) The unknowable Jesus?
• e) The unspeakable Science?
• f) Enlightenment in the spirit
• g) Enlightenment through intuition
• h) Enlightenment of the word
• i) Enlightenment made reasonable
• j) Enlightenment through language
• Summary
• Chapter 20 Theology ‘versus’ Science
• a) Origin of the thesis
• b) Biblical Science, Natural Theology?
• c) Copernicus and Galileo
• d) Newton, Leibniz and Theodicy
• e) Nineteenth century: Darwin and design
• f) Twentieth century: Einstein and particle physics
• g) Big Bang and the Anthropic Principle
• h) Epilogue
• Summary
• Chapter 21 Theology ‘versus’ Anthropology?
• a) Human beings, socio-political animals
• b) Marx and the eradication of Religion
• c) God in man’s image? Feuerbach and Newman
• d) Psychoanalysis: Freud, Jung, Frankl
• e) Sociology of Religion: James and Durkheim
• f) The Holy: Otto and Tillich
• Summary
• Chapter 22 Dialogues in Different Voices
• a) Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
• b) Existentialism and the birth of Postmodernism
• c) Postmodern hermeneutics
• d) Liberation Theologies
• e) Feminist biblical criticism
• f) Mariology as liberation?
• g) Epilogue: Marian veneration
• Summary
• Chapter 23 Dialogues in Ethics
• a) What must I do?
• b) Ethical theory in Christianity
• c) Secular ethical theory
• d) Beginning and end of life
• e) War and peace
• f) Environment
• g) Sex, family and relationships
• Summary
• Chapter 24 Dialogues in Faith
• a) Dialogues in faith
• b) Dialogues between faiths
• c) Salvation and interfaith dialogue
• d) Salvation and the role of Christ
• e) Salvation and eschatology
• f) Dante. Last word on the last things?
• Summary
• Chapter 25 Dialogue and the Future
• a) Reviewing the journey
• b) Theological method
• c) Dialogues on the event horizon
• d) Dialogues in new directions?
• e) Theology is everywhere
• f) Last word or first conversation?
• Part 6 Customer Support: References and Readings
• References, Extracts, Further Readings
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Glossary
• Overview of biblical and theological terms
• Index