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• Half-title
• Praise for the First Edition
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Part I Introduction to Theology
• Chapter 1 What Is Theology?
• Introduction: The Quest(ions) of Human Existence
• The Development of the Concept of Theology
• Origin of the Term ”Theology”
• Brief History of the Concept and Practice of Theology
• Patristic Developments
• Medieval and Reformation Developments
• Modern and Contemporary Developments
• The Architecture and Method of Theology
• The Sources/Norms and Branches of Theology
• The Tasks and Audiences of Systematic Theology
• The Criteria of Systematic Theology
• The Dynamics of Systematic Theology
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 2 The Critical Context of Theology Today
• The Contextual Dimension of Theology
• The Social Location and Identity of the Theologian
• Modernity
• The Enlightenment Project
• Challenge to Christian Orthodoxy
• Secularization and the Rise of Modern Atheism
• Individualism and Dehumanization
• The Problem of Evil
• Postmodernity
• The Crisis of Meaning
• Historical Contingency
• Epistemological Pluralism
• Global Consciousness
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Part II Key Themes of Christian Theology
• Chapter 3 Revelation and Knowledge of God
• The Concept of Revelation
• Knowing God and the Necessity of Revelation
• The Meaning of Revelation
• General Revelation
• Biblical Themes
• Natural Theology
• Special Revelation
• The Word of God
• The Doctrine of Scripture
• The Relationship of General and Special Revelation
• General Revelation Alone
• Special Revelation Alone
• The Integration of General and Special Revelation
• Speaking of God
• Anthropomorphism
• Accommodation
• Analogy
• Metaphor
• Recent Challenges to God-Talk
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 4 A Tale of Two Theisms
• Introduction
• Biblical Foundations
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• The Historical Development of Classical Theism
• Christianity and Hellenistic Culture
• The Patristic Legacy
• Scholasticism and Thomas Aquinas
• The Specter of Modern Atheism
• Naturalistic Atheism
• Humanistic Atheism
• Apathetic Atheism
• Protest Atheism
• A Tale of Two Theisms
• Classical Theism
• Trinitarian Theism
• Reconsidering Divine Attributes
• Simplicity / Indivisibility
• Immutability
• Eternality
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 5 The Triune God
• Introduction
• The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• The Historical Development of Trinity Doctrine
• The Earliest Church Fathers and the Heresy of Modalism
• The Arian Controversy
• The Cappadocians and the East
• Augustine and the West
• The Modern Demise of Trinity Doctrine
• A Trinitarian Renaissance
• A Systematic Consideration of the Trinity
• A Typology of Models
• The Western Paradoxical Trinity
• The Neo-Modal Trinity
• The Social Trinity
• Forms of Unity
• The Question of Tritheism
• Trinitarian Mystery
• Practical Advantages of the Social Model
• Conclusion: The Question of ”God”
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 6 The World as Creation
• Introduction
• The Biblical Affirmation of Creation
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• The Doctrine of Creation in Historical Perspective
• Gnosticism and Creatio ex Nihilo
• Geocentric Cosmology
• Heliocentrism and the Rise of Modern Science
• Creation and Evolution
• Today’s Ecological Crisis
• A Systematic Consideration of Creation Doctrine
• Implications of Creatio ex Nihilo Doctrine
• ”God is the source of all that there is”
• ”Creatures are dependent, yet real and good”
• ”God creates in freedom and with purpose”
• Divine Transcendence
• Ontological Implications
• Epistemological Implications
• Divine Immanence
• Retrieving Immanence in View of the Ecological Crisis
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 7 Humanity in the Image of God and the Disfigurement of Sin
• The Question of Human Identity
• The Image of God in the Biblical Text
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• The Image of God in the History of Theology
• Irenaeus
• Thomas Aquinas
• John Calvin
• Emil Brunner
• The Image of God: A Representational-Relational Conception
• God and Humanity
• The Human Community
• Humanity and Nature
• Sin and the Image of God
• Defining Sin
• Original Sin
• Actual Sin
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 8 The Problem of Evil and the Question of Theodicy
• The Nature and Reality of Evil
• The Problem of Evil
• Dimensions of the Problem
• The Experiential Force of Evil
• The Intellectual Conundrum of Evil
• Twentieth-Century Intensification of the Problem of Evil
• Theodicies in the Western Tradition
• Evil as Inherent in Materiality
• Evil as Non-Being
• Evil as Condition for Human Becoming
• Evil and Cosmic Beauty
• Evil and Submission to the Divine Will
• A Theological Response to the Problem of Evil
• The Problem of Theodicy
• The Free-Will Defense
• The Origin of Evil
• The Present and Future Status of Evil
• Good Friday: Trinity and Cross
• Easter Sunday: Resurrection and New Creation
• Holy Saturday: Lament, Protest, and Hope
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 9 The Identity and Person of Jesus Christ
• Introduction: The Quest(ion) of God
• Biblical Foundations
• Old Testament Messianic Expectations
• New Testament Fulfillment
• The Deity of Christ
• Historical Development
• The Long Road to Chalcedon
• The Ebionitic Strain and the Council of Nicea (325)
• The Docetic Strain and the Council of Constantinople (381)
• The Alexandrian and Antiochene Schools and the Council of Chalcedon (451)
• Modern Developments and Reaction
• A Systematic Consideration of the Person of Christ
• The Two-Natures Model
• The Kenotic Model
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 10 The Reconciling Work of Jesus Christ
• Introduction
• Biblical Roots of the Christian Understanding of Reconciliation
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Root Metaphors and Images
• Broader Biblical Perspectives
• Traditional Christian Atonement Theories
• Patristic Theology
• Recapitulation
• Deification
• Ransom
• Medieval and Reformation Theology
• Satisfaction
• Penal Substitution
• Modern Theology
• Exemplarism
• Kingdom of God
• A Narrative Proposal for Reconciliation Theology
• Creation as Kingdom of God
• Incarnation as Recapitulation
• Crucifixion as Substitutionary Death
• Resurrection for Liberation, Humanization, and Cosmic Shalom
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 11 The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
• Introduction: The Cinderella of the Trinity?
• Biblical Foundations
• Spirit in the Old Testament
• The Holy Spirit in the New Testament
• The Personhood and Deity of the Holy Spirit
• Historical Developments in Pneumatology
• The Patristic Era to the Council of Constantinople
• Augustine, the West, and the Filioque Clause
• The Middle Ages and the Reformation
• Modern Developments
• Enlightenment Challenges and Critiques
• Pentecostalism and Charismatic Movements
• Systematic Considerations
• The Filioque Clause
• Trinitarian Appropriations
• Recovery of the ”Creator Spirit”
• Spirit and Flesh
• Holistic Spirituality
• The Creator Spirit and the Ecological Crisis
• The Spirit and the World’s Religions
• The Spirit in Glorification
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 12 Dimensions of Salvation
• Introduction
• Salvation in Biblical Perspective
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Personal and Cosmic Salvation
• The Saving Work of the Holy Spirit: Adoption into the Triune Life
• Dimensions of Salvation in Historical and Systematic Perspective
• Faith
• Justification
• Sanctification
• Cosmic Salvation and Personal Vocation
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 13 The Church and Its Mission
• Introduction
• The Nature and Identity of the Church
• The Biblical Witness
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Key Biblical Images
• The Nicene Notes of the Church
• Unity
• Holiness
• Catholicity
• Apostolicity
• The Mission of the Church
• Tasks of the Church
• Proclamation through Preaching
• The Sacraments as Proclamation
• The Embodied Proclamation of the Living Church Community
• Mission and Election
• Visible and Invisible Church
• Reframing Election
• Conclusion: A Church For the World
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 14 Christianity in a Global Context
• Introduction: Two Theaters and Challenges to the Mission of the Church
• Western Christianity
• The Decline of Christianity in Recent Centuries
• Heightened Awareness of the Complexity of Humanity’s Religious History
• Christian Responses to Religious Plurality
• Biblical Perspectives
• Historical Perspectives
• A Typology of Approaches
• World Christianity
• The Recent Growth of ”Non-Western” Christianity
• Latin America
• Africa
• Asia
• The Future of the Church
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 15 Hope and the Future
• Introduction
• Hope Springs Eternal
• Biblical Eschatology
• Old Testament Hopes
• New Testament Realization
• Historical Perspectives: The Waning and Waxing of Biblical Eschatology
• A Systematic Consideration of Ecumenical Eschatology
• The Second Coming of Christ
• The Question of the Millennium
• The Resurrection of the Dead
• The Question of the Intermediate State
• Final Judgment/Justice
• The Question of Hell
• The New Heaven and Earth
• The Question of Hope
• Sources and Further Reading
• Part III Historical Survey of Christian Theology
• Chapter 16 Theology in the Patristic Era (c. 100-500)
• The Birth of Christianity
• The Jewish Roots of Christianity
• The Greco-Roman World of Early Christianity
• The Search for Christian Identity
• The ”Apostolic Fathers”
• Theology amid Persecution: Martyrdom and the Apologists
• Heresy and the Checkered Path to ”Orthodoxy”
• Three Formative Theologians
• Irenaeus
• Tertullian
• Origen
• The Development of Creeds
• The Constantinian Shift
• Conciliar Orthodoxy: Definitive Christian Identity
• The New Testament Canon
• The Trinitarian Controversy
• The Christological Controversy
• East And West and the Identity of Traditions
• The Cappadocians
• Augustine
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 17 Theology in the Middle Ages (c. 500-1400)
• Introduction: Diverging Traditions
• Byzantine Theology
• Key Theological Accents
• Continued Controversy and the Later Ecumenical Councils
• The Filioque Controversy
• Latin Theology
• Early Medieval Theology
• Early Scholasticism
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Peter Abelard
• Peter Lombard
• The School of St. Victor
• High Scholasticism
• The Mendicant Orders
• Bonaventure
• Thomas Aquinas
• Late Scholasticism
• John Duns Scotus
• William of Ockham
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 18 Theology in the Reformation Period (c. 1400-1700)
• The Late Medieval Context of Church and Society
• The Lutheran Reformation
• Martin Luther
• Justification
• Theology of the Cross
• Law and Gospel
• Sacraments
• Philipp Melanchthon
• Lutheran Controversies and the Formula of Concord
• The Calvinist Reformation
• Huldrych Zwingli
• John Calvin
• Knowledge of God
• Providence and Predestination
• Christ and Salvation
• Sacraments
• The English Reformation
• The ”Radical” Reformation
• The Catholic Reformation
• The Counter-Reformation
• The Council of Trent
• Post-Reformation Theological Currents
• Protestant Orthodoxy
• Puritanism
• Pietism
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 19 Theology in Modernity (c. 1700-1960)
• Introduction: Prelude to the Modern World
• The Enlightenment
• Basic Features of the Enlightenment
• Philosophical Developments
• Enlightenment Challenges to Christian Belief
• Belief in God in General
• Christian Belief in Particular
• Theological Responses to the Enlightenment
• Immanuel Kant
• Georg W. F. Hegel
• Friedrich Schleiermacher
• Roman Catholicism and the First Vatican Council
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Liberal Protestantism
• Neo-orthodoxy
• Karl Barth
• Emil Brunner
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Rudolf Bultmann
• Reinhold Niebuhr
• Paul Tillich
• Sources and Further Reading
• Chapter 20 Theology in the Contemporary Period (c. 1960-Present)
• Theology in the Turbulent 1960s
• Death-of-God and Secular Theologies
• Process Theology
• Catholic Theology and Vatican II
• Twentieth-Century Catholic Theological Reform
• The Second Vatican Council
• Eastern Orthodox Theology
• History and Eschatology in Protestant Theology
• Wolfhart Pannenberg
• Jürgen Moltmann
• Liberation Theologies
• Latin American Liberation Theology
• Black Theology
• Feminist Theology
• Postmodernity and Theology
• Radical Postmodernism in Theology
• Narrative and Post-liberal Theology
• Global Christianity and the Shape of Theology
• Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Glossary
• Index