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| Preface | |
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| Becoming a Theologian | |
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| How God Makes Theologians | |
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| Astonishment and Theological Virtue | |
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| Resurrection to Pentecost: Where Christian Theology Begins | |
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| But Can You Study Theology without Having to Believe? | |
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| Strange Calling: Theologians as Adventurers, Pirates, Mystics, and Sages | |
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| Adventure: Continuing Conversion of the Theologian | |
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| Piracy: Thinking Analogically | |
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| Mystical Life: Interpreting Reality in Terms of God | |
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| Wisdom: Thinking by Means of God's Thoughts | |
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| Divine Teaching and Christian Beliefs | |
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| Theology's Weakness and Wisdom's Parting Gift | |
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| Sacred Teaching: The Nature and Function of Christian Beliefs | |
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| Visions of the Whole: Origen, Aquinas, and Barth | |
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| How Not to Believe: The Dangers of Fantasy and Fanaticism | |
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| Theology's Search for Understanding | |
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| Salvation: The Foundation of Christian Theology | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Why Start with Salvation? | |
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| Salvation as the Basis for Christian Theology | |
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| Identifying Different Approaches to the Mystery of Salvation | |
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| Salvation: Meeting Heaven Face to Face | |
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| Landmarks | |
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| Irenaeus: Salvation and New Creation | |
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| Brief Interlude: A Crucial Difficulty in Soteriology | |
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| Augustine and God's Justice | |
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| Anselm and the Divine Order | |
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| Pathfinding | |
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| On the Death of Christ: Orthodox, Feminist, and Girardian Concerns | |
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| Salvation and the Paschal Mystery | |
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| Divine Life: Trinity, Incarnation, and the Breathing of the Spirit | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Sheer Bliss: Why God Reveals Divine Life to be the Trinity | |
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| Forgiveness and Abundance: Origins of Trinitarian Awareness | |
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| The Life of the Incarnate Word and the Power of the Spirit | |
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| The Developing Principles of Trinitarian Theology | |
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| Landmarks | |
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| Augustine on the Mysterious Attraction of the Trinity | |
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| Karl Barth on the God Who Loves in Freedom | |
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| Pathfinding | |
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| Questions in Trinitarian Theology Today | |
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| The Trinity and Mystical Participation in God | |
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| Creaturely Life: A Journey towards Beatitude | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Death No Longer Has Dominion: Creation's Path in the Light of Easter | |
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| Creation - Revelation - Sacrament | |
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| Human Life - Ecclesial Life - Beatitude | |
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| Landmarks | |
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| Thomas Aquinas on Creation: "A Representation of the Divine Wisdom" | |
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| Blaise Pascal an Human Existence | |
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| Pathfinding | |
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| Two Disputed Questions | |
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| The Human Calling in Creation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |