Theology: A Very Short Introduction [2nd ed., 1st impression] 978-0-19-967997-3, 0199679975

Table of contents :
Content: 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
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