Engaging a reading -- Christian theology : an historical overview -- Faith -- Augustine on theology and secular philosophy -- Vincent of Lerins on tradition and theology -- John Calvin on the nature of faith -- Karl Barth on revelation and the Word of God -- Emil Brunner on faith and reason -- Paul Tillich on the nature of theology -- C.S. Lewis on myths in theology -- John Paul II on faith and reason -- God -- Athenagoras of Athens on the Christian God -- Thomas Aquinas on analogies of God -- Jurgan Moltmann on the suffering of God -- Hans Urs von Balthasar on the glory of God -- Elizabeth A. Johnson on female analogies for God -- Sarah Coakley on vulnerability and God -- Creation -- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola -- Jonathan Edwards on the beauty of creation -- William Paley on the contrivance of nature -- John Henry Newman on natural religion -- G.K.Chesterton on the doctrine of creation -- Dorothy l. Sayers on creation and evil -- Jesus -- Athanasius of Alexandria on the incarnation -- Martin Kokhler on the Jesus of history -- George Tyrrell on modern views of Jesus -- Austin Farrer on the incarnation and suffering -- Morna D. Hooker on chalcedon and the New Testament -- N.T. Wright on Jesus and the identity of God -- Salvation -- Rufinus of Aquileia on Christ's death as a victory -- Anselm of Canterbury on satisfaction for sin -- F.D.E. Schleiermacher on Christ as Redeemer -- Bernard Lonergan on the rationality of salvation -- Colin Gunton on the language of salvation -- Rosemary Radford Ruether on suffering and redemption -- Trinity -- Ienaeus of Lyons on the trinitarian faith -- The Eleventh Council of Toledo on the Trinity -- Henry Barclay Swete on the Holy Spirit and the Trinity -- Karl Rahner on the economic Trinity -- John Macquarrie on the function of the Trinity -- Robert Jenson on the Trinity as God's name -- Church -- Martin Luther on the nature of the church -- Lesslie Newbigin on a missionary ecclesiology -- The Second Vatican Council on the church -- George Dragas on orthodox ecclesiology -- Stanley Hauerwas on the church and the Christian story -- Leonardo Boff on the reinvention of the church -- Sacraments -- Cyril of Jerusalem on the meaning of baptism -- Huldrych Zwingli on the real presence -- The Council of Trent on transubstantiation -- The World Council of Churches on baptism -- Rowan Williams on the sacraments as signs -- Benedict XVI on the Eucharist -- Heaven -- Cyprian of Carthage on the hope of heaven -- Methodius of Olympus on the resurrection body -- John Wesley on the final restoration of nature -- The catechism of the Catholic Church on the resurrection -- Wolfhart Pannenberg on eschatology and evil -- Kathryn Tanner on eternal life.