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• Cover
• Series
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Foreword to the Second Edition
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Introduction
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 11 John as Theologian
• a) The writings of John
• Signs:
• ‘I AM’ Statements:
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 17 Sacraments
• a) Signs of love
• b) Baptism
• c) Confirmation
• d) Eucharist
• e) Penance
• f) Extreme unction
• g) Marriage
• h) Holy Orders
• Summary
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 24 Dialogues in Prayer
• a) The liturgical paradigm
• b) The mission paradigm
• c) The martyr paradigm
• d) The monastic paradigm
• e) The pilgrim paradigm
• f) Dialogue as paradigm
• Summary
• 25 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
• 26 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
• Glossary
• Index
• Copyright