Exploring The Christian Faith Book

	Preface	5
	Contents	6
	Contributors	8
	How Can We Know?	11
	Where Do We Start?	12
	The Place of Tradition	13
	Revelation and Reason	15
	The Spiritual Dimension	18
	Folk Religion	21
	We All Believe Something	23
	Christianity: True to the Way Things Are	28
	Relating Philosophy and Theology	32
	A People-Centred Faith	35
	Jesus Christ	39
	Who Was Jesus?	40
	The Church's Understanding of Christ	49
	Jesus' Life and Teaching	57
	The Names and Titles of Jesus	58
	The Virgin Mary	60
	Jesus and the Old Testament	62
	The Poor	65
	How Muslims See Jesus	70
	How Hindus See Jesus	71
	How Marxists See Jesus	72
	Death ... And Then	75
	The Resurrection: Fact or Legend?	78
	The Centrality of Christ	80
	God	85
	God Is	86
	Putting Faith into Words	89
	God and Evil	92
	Can God be Proved?	94
	God: From the Fathers to the Moderns	96
	The Personal God	103
	Time and Eternity	105
	The Trinity	111
	The Place of the Bible	119
	God In Other Religions	128
	Christianity and Marxism	134
	Creation: Humanity and the World	137
	In the Beginning, God	138
	Angels and Demons	139
	The Christian Origins of Science	142
	Made in the Image of God	146
	The Arts	150
	Male and Female	155
	The Human Family	157
	One Stock, One People, One City	160
	A Flawed Humanity	163
	The Human Dilemma in Modern Literature	165
	Modern Idolatry	168
	A Spoiled Creation	170
	Sin in the System	172
	Power and Powerlessness	174
	The Responsibility of Wealth	176
	Depression	183
	Grief	184
	Physical Handicap	185
	The Death Experience	186
	The Laws of God	187
	Finding God's Will	189
	Foundations for Morality	190
	Good and Evil	195
	Forgiveness	196
	Violence and Non-Violence	198
	Work	201
	Medical Ethics	203
	Marriage and Divorce	204
	Polygamy	206
	A New Creation	209
	A New Age Dawns	210
	The Land	211
	Shalom	212
	Prophecy	214
	The Kingdom of God	217
	Jews and Christians	218
	Good News of Freedom	220
	What Kind of Freedom?	224
	Finding Faith	228
	Commitment and Openness	230
	Predestination and Human Choice	234
	Should Babies be Baptized?	238
	Life in the Holy Spirit	241
	Faith and Religion	242
	The Practice of Prayer	244
	Can We be Perfect?	246
	Life-Style Today	248
	Christian Renewal	252
	Proclaiming His Death	254
	Spirituality through the Ages	258
	A Living Community	261
	'Into all the World'	262
	Christian Healing	264
	Christian Communities	266
	Deviations from Christianity	268
	The Debate about Christian Mission	270
	Priesthood and Ordination	274
	Governing the Church	276
	Church and State	278
	Destiny	282
	The Millennium	285
	Is Everyone Saved?	286
	Christian Belief in the Making	291
	People and Movements through the Centuries	292
	Glossary	334
	Index	347