PART I: Landmarks: Periods, themes, and personalities of Christian theology -- Introduction -- 1. The Patristic period, c.100-c.700 -- 2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c.700-c.1500 -- 3. The Age of Reformation, c.1500-c.1750 -- 4. The Modern period, c.1750 to the present -- PART II: Sources and methods -- 5. Getting started: Preliminaries -- 6. The sources of theology -- 7. Knowledge of God: Natural and revealed -- 8. Philosophy and theology: Dialogue and debate -- PART III: Christian theology -- 9. The doctrine of God -- 10. The person of Jesus Christ -- 11. The nature and basis of salvation -- 12. The Holy Spirit -- 13. The Trinity -- 14. Human nature, sin, and grace -- 15. The church -- 16. The sacraments -- 17. Christianity and the world religions -- 18. Last things: The Christian hope -- Jargon-busting: A glossary of theological terms. |