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ALISTER E. McGRATH
University of Oxford

Welcome to the website to accompany the new editions of the bestselling Christian Theology: An Introduction and The Christian Theology Reader

For full details about both of these books, including full contents lists, please follow these links:

Christian Theology: An Introduction, 4th edition

The Christian Theology Reader, 3rd edition

Readers of these books may also be interested in Theology: The Basics, also by Alister McGrath. This short and accessible book is the ideal introduction to the more comprehensive textbook and Reader.

We have the following resources available at this site:

• Detailed bibliographies to support Christian Theology: An Introduction
• Glossary of Theological Terms
• Details of Theologians from The Christian Theology Reader
• Audio lectures by Alister McGrath

If you have any suggestions for resources that should be available at this website, please email us.

Detailed Bibliographies

You will find detailed bibliographies here to accompany each of the chapters in Christian Theology: An Introduction. The author and publisher are committed to updating these regularly.

Part I: Landmarks: Periods, Themes and Personalities of Christian Theology

Chapter 1. The Patristic Period, c.100-c.700
Chapter 2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c.700-c.1500
Chapter 3. The Age of Reformation, c.1500-c.1750
Chapter 4. The Modern Period, c.1750 - the Present

Part II: Sources and Methods

Chapter 5. Getting Started: Preliminaries
Chapter 6. The Sources of Theology
Chapter 7. Knowledge of God: Natural and Revealed
Chapter 8. Philosophy and Theology: Introducing a Dialogue

Part III: Christian Theology

Chapter 9. The Doctrine of God
Chapter 10. The Doctrine of the Trinity
Chapter 11. The Doctrine of the Person of Christ
Chapter 12. Faith and History: The Christological Agenda of Modernity
Chapter 13. The Doctrine of Salvation in Christ
Chapter 14. The Doctrines of Human Nature, Sin, and Grace
Chapter 15. The Doctrine of the Church
Chapter 16. The Doctrine of the Sacraments
Chapter 17. Christianity and the World Religions
Chapter 18. Last Things: The Christian Hope

Podcasts - now available!

This series of three lectures by theologian and bestseller author, Alister McGrath, introduces some of the key themes, figures, issues and debates in Christian theology. The lectures are written to accompany McGrath's Christian Theology 4th edition textbook, but will be of interest to anyone who wants an introduction to some of the key aspects of this field.

• Lecture 1: (mp3, 18 minutes, 54 seconds)
  In this lecture, Alister McGrath asks what theology is. He explores what God means to different people, the relationship of theology to faith, the vocabulary of the Christian tradition, and introduces the sources of Christian theology: the Bible, tradition, and reason.
• Lecture 2: (mp3, 18 minutes, 16 seconds)
  In this second lecture, Alister McGrath explores the nature of faith, what we might mean by belief, and the themes of trust when discussing and practicing faith. He demonstrates rationality of faiths; tackling the notion that faith lies beyond reason, but is not contrary to it.
• Lecture 3: (mp3, 19 minutes, 14 seconds)
  Alister McGrath explores a number of issues of doctrinal theology in his third lecture. He includes a discussion of the doctrine of incarnation - one of the most distinctive of Christine doctrines - the idea of the word made flesh, and the doctrine of two natures: divine and human.

Glossary of Theological Terms

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Details of Theologians

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