This is an introduction to the subject of academic theology. Its basic approach is interrogative, raising key questions so as to lead into a range of selected topics such as knowledge, community, salvation, God, prayer and evil.
Table of Contents:
Preface Part 1: Describing the field 1. Introduction: Theology and the religions in transformation 2. Theology and religious studies: how is the field shaped? Part 2: Theological explorations 3. Thinking of God 4. Living before God: worship, ethics, and politics 5. Facing evil 6. Jesus Christ 7. Salvation - scope, intensity, and dialogues Part 3: Skills, disciplines, and methods 8. Through the past to the present: history and texts 9. Experience, reason, and wisdom Part 4: Prospects 10. Theology for the third millennium References Further reading
