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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Apostles' Creed | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Introducing the Bible | |
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| Tradition | |
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| Creeds | |
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| Reason | |
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| The "handmaid": dialogue between theology and culture | |
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| Moving on ... | |
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| Faith | |
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| What is faith? | |
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| Can God's existence be proved? | |
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| Are these proofs of any use? | |
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| Faith is beyond reason but not contrary to reason | |
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| Faith and God's promises | |
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| Faith and doubt: the problem of suffering | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| God | |
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| Analogies in theology | |
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| God as father | |
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| A personal God | |
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| God as almighty | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Creation | |
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| Creation in the Old Testament | |
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| The concept of creation "out of nothing" | |
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| Creation and dualism | |
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| Implications of the doctrine of creation | |
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| Models of God as creator | |
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| Humanity and creation: the "image of God" | |
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| Creation and natural theology | |
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| Creation and creationism | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Jesus | |
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| Messiah | |
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| Lord | |
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| Son of God | |
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| Son of Man | |
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| God | |
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| Functional statements about Jesus | |
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| Early Christological models | |
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| The Council of Chalcedon | |
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| The incarnation and icons | |
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| Christ as mediator | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Pauline images of salvation | |
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| The problem of analogy: salvation as ransom | |
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| Theories of atonement | |
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| The cross as sacrifice | |
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| The cross as a victory | |
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| The cross and forgiveness | |
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| Salvation, sin, and Christ | |
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| Salvation, Christ, and the redeemed life | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Spirit | |
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| Biblical models of the Holy Spirit | |
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| The debate over the divinity of the Holy Spirit | |
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| The filioque debate | |
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| The functions of the Spirit | |
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| Trtnity | |
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| Belief in the Trinity | |
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| A Trinitarian heresy: modalism | |
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| Visualizing the Trinity | |
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| The Trinity and the naming of God | |
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| Communicating the Trinity: hymns | |
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| The "social Trinity": Jurgen Moltmann | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Church | |
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| The church: local or universal? | |
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| Only one church? | |
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| The catholicity of the church | |
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| The church: holy or just human? | |
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| The church as constituted by the Word of God | |
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| Pure or mixed body: what difference does it make? | |
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| Ministry within the church: the Second Vatican Council | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Sacraments | |
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| What is a sacrament? | |
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| What do sacraments do? | |
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| What factors affect the effectiveness of sacraments? | |
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| Is infant baptism justified? | |
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| In what way, if any, is Christ present at the eucharist? | |
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| Heaven | |
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| The hope of heaven | |
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| An image of heaven: the New Jerusalem | |
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| The appearance of the human body in heaven | |
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| Heaven as an encounter with loved ones | |
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| Heaven and the worship of the church | |
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| Heaven and the millennium | |
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| The beatific vision: seeing God face to face | |
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| Engaging with a text | |
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| Moving On | |
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| Brief Glossary of Theological Terms | |
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| Details of Theologians Cited | |
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| Index | |