Preface

Part 1: Studying God

1. What Is Theology?
2. Theology and Philosophy
3. The Method of Theology
4. Theology and Critical Study of the Bible
5. Contemporizing the Christian Message
6. Theology and Its Language
7. Postmodernity and Theology

Part 2: Knowing God

8. God's Universal Revelation
9. God's Particular Revelation
10. The Preservation of the Revelation:
Inspiration
11. The Dependability of God's Word:
Inerrancy
12. The Power of God's Word: Authority

Part 3: What God Is Like

13. The Greatness of God
14. The Goodness of God
15. God's Nearness and Distance: Immanence and Transcendence
16. God's Three-in-Oneness: The Trinity

Part 4: What God Does

17. God's Plan
18. God's Originating Work: Creation
19. God's Continuing Work: Providence
20. Evil and God's World: A Special Problem
21. God's Special Agents: Angels

Part 5: Humanity

22. Introduction to the Doctrine of Humanity
23. The Origin of Humanity
24. The Image of God in the Human
25. The Constitutional Nature of the Human
26. The Universality of Humanity

Part 6: Sin

27. The Nature of Sin
28. The Source of Sin
29. The Results of Sin
30. The Magnitude of Sin
31. The Social Dimension of Sin

Part 7: The Person of Christ

32. Contemporary Issues in Christological
Method
33. The Deity of Christ
34. The Humanity of Christ
35. The Unity of the Person of Christ
36. The Virgin Birth

Part 8: The Work of Christ

37. Introduction to the Work of Christ
38. Theories of the Atonement
39. The Central Theme of the Atonement
40. The Extent of the Atonement

Part 9: The Holy Spirit

41. The Person of the Holy Spirit
42. The Work of the Holy Spirit

Part 10: Salvation

43. Conceptions of Salvation
44. The Antecedent to Salvation: Predestination
45. The Beginning of Salvation: Subjective Aspects
46. The Beginning of Salvation: Objective Aspects
47. The Continuation of Salvation
48. The Completion of Salvation
49. The Means and Extent of Salvation

Part 11: The Church

50. The Nature of the Church
51. The Role of the Church
52. The Government of the Church
53. The Initiatory Rite of the Church: Baptism
54. The Continuing Rite of the Church: The
Lord's Supper
55. The Unity of the Church

Part 12: The Last Things

56. Introduction to Eschatology
57. Individual Eschatology
58. The Second Coming and Its Consequents
59. Millennial and Tribulational Views
60. Final States
Concluding Thoughts