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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How To Use This Book | |
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| Engaging a Reading | |
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| Christian Theology: An Historical Overview | |
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| Faith | |
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| God | |
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| Creation | |
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| Jesus | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Spirit | |
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| Trinity | |
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| Church | |
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| Sacraments | |
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| Heaven | |
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| A Brief Glossary of Theological Terms | |
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| Sources of Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments ix | |
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| How To Use This Book xiii | |
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| Engaging a Reading xvi | |
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| Christian Theology: An Historical Overview xviii | |
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| Faith | |
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| Augustine of Hippo on theology and secular philosophy | |
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| Vincent of L�rins on tradition and theology | |
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| John Calvin on the nature of faith | |
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| Karl Barth on revelation and the Word of God | |
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| Emil Brunner on revelation and reason | |
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| Paul Tillich on the nature of theology | |
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| C. S. Lewis on myths in theology | |
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| John Paul II on faith and reason | |
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| God | |
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| Athenagoras of Athens on the Christian God | |
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| Thomas Aquinas on analogies of God | |
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| J�rgen Moltmann on the suffering of God | |
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| Hans Urs von Balthasar on the glory of God | |
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| Elizabeth A. Johnson on female analogies for God | |
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| Sarah Coakley on vulnerability and God | |
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| Creation | |
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| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on human nature | |
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| Jonathan Edwards on the beauty of creation | |
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| William Paley on the contrivance of nature | |
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| John Henry Newman on natural religion | |
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| G. K. Chesterton on the doctrine of creation | |
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| Dorothy L. Sayers on creation and evil | |
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| Jesus | |
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| Athanasius of Alexandria on the incarnation | |
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| Martin K�hler on the “Jesus of History” | |
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| George Tyrrell on modern views of Jesus | |
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| Austin Farrer on the incarnation and suffering | |
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| Morna D. Hooker on Chalcedon and the New Testament | |
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| N. T. Wright on Jesus and the identity of God | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Rufinus of Aquileia on Christ’s death as a victory | |
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| Anselm of Canterbury on satisfaction for sin | |
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| F. D. E. Schleiermacher on Christ as redeemer | |
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| Bernard Lonergan on the rationality of salvation | |
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| Colin Gunton on the language of salvation | |
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| Rosemary Radford Ruether on suffering and redemption | |
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| Spirit | |
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| Ambrose of Milan on the divinity of the Spirit | |
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| The Formula of Concord on the Spirit and human renewal | |
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| Charles Gore on the Holy Spirit and redemption | |
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| Henry Barclay Swete on the Holy Spirit and the Trinity | |
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| John Webster on the person of the Spirit | |
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| John Meyendorff on the Spirit and the Trinity | |
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| Trinity | |
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| Irenaeus of Lyons on the Trinitarian faith | |
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| The Eleventh Council of Toledo on the Trinity | |
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| Karl Rahner on the economic Trinity | |
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| John Macquarrie on the function of the Trinity | |
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| Robert Jenson on the Trinity as God’s name | |
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| Catherine Mowry LaCugna on the Trinity and the Christian life | |
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| Church | |
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| Martin Luther on the nature of the church | |
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| Lesslie Newbigin on a missionary ecclesiology | |
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| The Second Vatican Council on the church | |
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| George Dragas on Orthodox ecclesiology | |
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| Stanley Hauerwas on the church and the Christian story | |
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| Leonardo Boff on the reinvention of the church | |
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| Sacraments | |
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| Cyril of Jerusalem on the meaning of baptism | |
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| Huldrych Zwingli on the real presence | |
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| The Council of Trent on transubstantiation | |
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| The World Council of Churches on baptism | |
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| Rowan Williams on the sacraments as signs | |
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| Benedict XVI on the eucharist | |
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| Heaven | |
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| Cyprian of Carthage on the hope of heaven | |
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| Methodius of Olympus on the resurrection body | |
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| John Wesley on the final restoration of nature | |
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| The Catechism of the Catholic Church on the resurrection | |
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| Wolfhart Pannenberg on eschatology and evil | |
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| Kathryn Tanner on eternal life | |
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| A Brief Glossary of Theological Terms | |
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| Sources of Readings | |
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| Index | |