| Includes bibliographical references and index.;The patristic period, c.100-c.700 -- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c.700-c.1500 -- The age of Reformation, c.1500-c.1750 -- The modern period, c.1750-the present -- Getting started: preliminaries -- The sources of theology -- Knowledge of God: natural and revealed -- Philosophy and theology: introducing a dialogue -- The doctrine of God -- The doctrine of the Trinity -- The doctrine of the person of Christ -- Faith and history: the Christological agenda of modernity -- The doctrine of salvation in Christ -- The doctrines of human nature, sin, and grace -- The doctrine of the church -- The doctrine of the sacraments -- Christianity and the world religions -- The last things: the Christian hope.; |