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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Sources Frequently Cited | |
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| The Task of Theology | |
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| Theology as Faith Seeking Understanding | |
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| The Questionableness of Theology | |
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| The Questions of Theology | |
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| Methods of Asking Theological Questions | |
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| The Meaning of Revelation | |
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| What Is Revelation? | |
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| God Hidden and Revealed | |
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| Revelation as Objective and Subjective | |
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| General and Special Revelation | |
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| Models of Revelation | |
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| Revelation as God's Self-Disclosure Narrated in Scripture | |
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| Revelation, Scripture, and Church | |
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| The Authority of Scripture | |
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| The Problem of Authority in Modern Culture | |
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| Inadequate Approaches to the Authority of Scripture | |
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| The Indispensability of Scripture in Relating Us, by the Power of the Spirit, to the Living God Revealed in Jesus Christ | |
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| Principles of the Interpretation of Scripture | |
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| The Triune God | |
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| The Problem of God in Modern Theology | |
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| The Biblical Roots of the Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| Classical Trinitarian Doctrine | |
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| Distortions in the Doctrine of God | |
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| Restatement of the Meaning of the Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| The Attributes of God | |
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| The Electing Grace of God | |
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| The Good Creation | |
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| Christian Faith and the Ecological Crisis | |
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| Rereading the Scriptural Witness on Creation | |
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| Rethinking the Themes of the Doctrine of Creation | |
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| Trinity, Creation, and Ecology | |
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| Models of Creation | |
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| The Doctrine of Creation and Modern Science | |
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| The Providence of God and the Mystery of Evil | |
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| Belief in Providence and the Reality of Evil | |
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| Providence and Evil in the Theological Tradition | |
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| Rethinking Providence and Evil | |
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| Recent Theodicies | |
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| The Triune God and Human Suffering | |
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| Providence, Prayer, Practice | |
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| Humanity as Creature, Sinner, and New Being in Christ | |
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| Interpretations of "Image of God" | |
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| Created Humanity | |
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| Fallen Humanity | |
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| The Meaning of Original Sin and of Death as Enemy | |
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| New Humanity in Christ | |
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| The Person and Work of Jesus Christ | |
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| Problems in Christology | |
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| Principles of Christology | |
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| Patristic Christology | |
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| Rethinking Classical Affirmations of the Person of Christ | |
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| Rethinking Classical Interpretations of the Work of Christ | |
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| Violence and the Cross | |
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| Dimensions of the Resurrection of Christ | |
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| Confessing Jesus Christ in Context | |
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| The Particularity and Universality of the Gospel | |
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| Latin American Christology | |
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| African American Christology | |
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| Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Christologies | |
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| Hispanic Christology | |
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| Asian American Christology | |
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| The Local and the Global in Christology | |
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| The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life | |
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| Neglect and Recovery of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit | |
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| A Sketch of a Theology of the Holy Spirit | |
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| The Christian Life: Justification | |
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| The Christian Life: Sanctification | |
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| The Christian Life: Vocation | |
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| The New Community | |
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| The Problem of the Church | |
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| New Testament Images of the Church | |
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| Critique of Current Models of the Church | |
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| The Church and the Call to Communion | |
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| The Church and the Call to Mission | |
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| Classical Marks of the Church | |
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| Proclamation, Sacraments, and Ministry | |
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| Proclamation of the Word | |
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| What Are Sacraments? | |
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| The Meaning of Baptism | |
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| The Meaning of the Lord's Supper | |
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| Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and Ethics | |
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| The Meaning of an Ordained Ministry | |
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| The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism | |
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| The Ambiguity of Religion | |
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| Types of Christian Theologies of the Religions | |
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| Toward a Trinitarian Theology of the Religions | |
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| Salvation in Other Religions? | |
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| Christians and Jews | |
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| Witness to Jesus Christ in a Religiously Pluralistic World | |
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| Christian Hope | |
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| The Crisis of Hope in an Age of Terrorism | |
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| Principles for Interpreting Christian Hope | |
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| Classical Symbols of Christian Hope | |
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| Eschatology and Ethics | |
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| Natural Theology: A Dialogue | |
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| The Resurrection: A Dialogue | |
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| Political Theology: A Dialogue | |
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| A Glossary of Theological Terms | |
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| Index of Names and Subjects | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |