Companion encyclopedia of theology / edited by Peter Byrne and Leslie Houlden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1033-1035) and index.

The Hebrew Bible / John Barton -- The Hebrew Bible / Gary Gilbert and Alan F. Segal -- The Christian adoption of the Old Testament / G.R. Evans -- The Old Testament / John Rogerson -- The New Testament / Leslie Houlden -- The New Testament / John Muddiman -- The New Testament in theology / Heikkim Räisänen -- The Bible as holy book / Stephen Prickett -- Jesus in history and belief / Leslie Houlden -- The triune God of the Bible and the energence of orthodoxy / Robert L. Wilken -- Christendom / David d'Avray -- The transition to modernity / Alister McGrath -- The Enlightenment / John Kent -- Theology now / Keith Clements -- Christian theology and other faiths / Gavin D'Costa -- Christian theology's dialogue with culture / Frank Burch Brown -- The concept of God / Keith Ward -- The idea of reason / Terence Penelhum -- Natural theology / David A. Pailin -- Religious language / Mark Wynn -- Theology and scientific understanding / Peter Byrne -- Theological anthropology / Roger Trigg.

Evil and theology / Stewart Sutherland -- Feminism in the philosophy of religion / Grace Jantzen -- Spirituality and theology / Philip Sheldrake -- Patristic spirituality / Anthony Meredith -- Mysticism and devotion in the Middle Ages / Benedicta Ward -- Religious experience in the era of reform / Rowan Williams -- Theology and spirituality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Terry Tastard -- Religious experience and language / William J. Wainwright -- Spirituality and liberation / Kenneth Leech -- Spirituality and liturgy / Gordon S. Wakefield -- The idea of Christian ethics / James M. Gustafson -- Violence, warfare and peace / Barrie Paskins -- Ethics and the personal life / Helen Oppenheimer -- Theology, wealth and social justice / Jack Mahoney -- Power and the State / Edward Norman -- The pastoral experience / Jack Dominian -- Theology, medicine and health / John Morgan -- Environmental ethics / Stephen Clark.

The character and possibility of Christian theology today / John Kent -- Making sense of God / Theodore Jennings -- The figure of Jesus Christ in contemporary Christianity / John Macquarrie -- The Trinity in modern theology / Colin Gunton -- Theology in the narrative mode / Brian Horne -- Theology in the dogmatic mode / Paul Avis -- Theology as praxis / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Theology and the future of the Church / Walter Hollenweger.

The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology provides a comprehensive guide to modern theological thought. An international team of theologians and practitioners of both the Christian and Jewish faiths investigate and consider aspects of theology in 48 self-contained articles. --From publisher's description.

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