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Preface | |
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Understanding Contemporary Christian Thought | |
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Setting the Stage: Christianity and the Developments of Modernity | |
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The Enlightenment and the Development of Critical and Autonomous Reason | |
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Historical Criticism of the Bible | |
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The Two Main Hypotheses of Historical Criticism | |
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Theological Questions and Challenges Raised by Historical Criticism | |
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Surveying the Field: Options in Contemporary Christian Thought | |
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Biblical Literalism | |
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Evidence for Truth | |
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Biblical Literalists in the United States | |
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Theological Literalism | |
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Faith and Reason | |
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Theological Literalists in the United States | |
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Theological Reinterpreters | |
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Panentheism and Its Implications | |
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The Place of Theological Reinterpreters in the Church | |
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Classical Christian Thought and Contemporary Transformations | |
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God and Cosmology | |
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Biblical and Greek Roots of the Christian Idea of God | |
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Transformations in Reflection on God during the Enlightenment | |
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Justifying Belief in God in the Contemporary Period | |
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Limits of Rational Thought: Barth | |
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Awareness of God through Ultimate Concern: Tillich | |
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God and God's Relation to the Universe in Panentheism | |
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Human Language about God | |
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Metaphors of God and the Analogy of Being | |
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Human Language about God and Contemporary Theology | |
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Christ and History | |
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Historical Background: Jewish Hopes for a Messiah | |
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The Development of Classical Christology | |
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Historical Background: New Testament Gospels to the Nicene Creed | |
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Jesus the Christ in Classical Christology | |
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The Historical Jesus and Christology in the Contemporary Period | |
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The Quest for the Historical Jesus | |
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Directions in Contemporary Christology | |
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Liberation Theology | |
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Existentialist Theology | |
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Theology of Hope | |
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Heaven, Hell, and Anthropology | |
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Biblical and Greek Views of Humanity and Human Destiny | |
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Mainstream Old Testament Belief in Sheol | |
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Development of Apocalypticism and Belief in Resurrection | |
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Greek Thought and Belief in an Immortal Soul | |
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Classical Christian Eschatology | |
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Fusion of Greek Anthropology and Hebrew Teleology | |
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Original Sin, Grace, and Human Destiny | |
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Contemporary Alternatives Regarding the Afterlife | |
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The Interdependent and Evolutionary Understanding of Human Beings | |
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Resurrection or Determined Agnosticism | |
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Progress in the Afterlife | |
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Process Theology's Limited God and the Afterlife | |
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Christianity and Cultural Transformations | |
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Christianity and Other Religions | |
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A Framework for Understanding Christianity's Relationship to Other Religions | |
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Historical Exclusivism and Articulation of the Issues | |
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Types of Contemporary Exclusivism | |
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Christianity Is Exclusively True and the Exclusive Place of Salvation: Sectarian Protestantism | |
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Christianity Is Exclusively True, but Salvation Is for Everyone | |
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The World Religions Have Some Truth, but Christianity Is the Exclusive Place of Salvation: Evangelical Protestantism | |
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Inclusivism | |
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Emergence of Inclusivism | |
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Salvation Occurs in All Religions, but Christianity Is Completely True | |
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Pluralism | |
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Salvation Occurs in All Religions, and No Religion Is Exclusively True | |
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Criticisms of Hick: Self-Conscious Inclusivism and Exclusivism | |
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Christianity and Feminism | |
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The Why and What of Feminist Theology | |
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Feminist Theology and the Bible | |
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The Twofold Approach to the Bible and Its Interpretation | |
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Exposing and Critiquing Patriarchy in Text and Interpretation | |
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Liberating Appropriation of the Text | |
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Women's Leadership in the Church | |
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Evangelical Protestants, the Bible, and Women's Ordination | |
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Roman Catholics and Women's Ordination | |
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Language for God | |
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Significance of Male God-Language | |
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Feminist Arguments for Change from Exclusively Male God-Language | |
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Sin and Salvation | |
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Sin as Self-Negation, Layered Oppression, and Structural Reality | |
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Salvation | |
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Christianity and Homosexuality | |
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Sources of Authority according to the Main Christian Groups | |
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Roman Catholicism, the Church Hierarchy, and Homosexuality | |
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Sources of Authority in Evangelical and Mainline Protestant Groups | |
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Biblical Passages on Homosexuality | |
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Old Testament | |
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New Testament | |
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Arguments from Human Reason and Scriptural Themes | |
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Human Reason | |
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Biblical Themes | |
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Christianity and the Natural Environment | |
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The Anti-environmental Charge against Christianity | |
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Stewardship of Creation | |
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Salvation History, Eschatology, and Ecology | |
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The Transformation of Nonhuman Creation | |
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Overcoming Christianity's Ecological Ambiguity | |
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Creation Spirituality | |
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Original Blessing and the Cosmic Christ | |
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The Universe Story | |
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Discussion Questions and Further Reading | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |