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The Christian Theology Reader 2nd edition

1 Getting Started: Preliminaries
Vatican I on Faith and Reason
Adolf von Harnack on the Origins of Dogma
John Paul II on Faith and Reason: Fides et Ratio

2 The Sources of Theology
Ludolf of Saxony on Reading Scripture
The Belgic Confession on the Little Book of Nature
King James I on the Relation of Old and New Testaments
The King James Translators on the Role of Biblical Translation
Sir Thomas Brown on the Two Books of Revelation
William Paley on the Wisdom of the Creation
John Henry Newman on the Role of Tradition
Charles Gore on the Relation to Dogma to the New Testament
James Orr on the Centrality of Revelation for Christianity
Wilhelm Herrmann on the Nature of Revelation
John Meyendorff on Living Tradition
The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Scripture and Tradition

3 The Doctrine of God
The Eleventh Council of Toledo on the Trinity
Richard Swinburne on God as Creator of the Universe
Hans Küng on the Immutability of God

4 The Person of Christ
William Dunbar on the Incarnation
A. B. Ritschl on the Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
Wolfhart Pannenberg on the Indispensability of the Historical Jesus
Thomas F. Torrance on the Incarnation and Soteriology
N. T. Wright on History and Christology

5 Salvation in Christ
Gregory of Nyssa on Christ's Death as a Ransom
Theodoret of Cyrus on the Death of Christ
Augustine on Redemption in Christ
James Denney on Atonement and Incarnation

6 Human Nature, Sin and Grace
Gregory of Nyssa on Human Longing for God
Hildegard of Bingen on the Creation of Man and Woman

7 The Church
Cyril of Jerusalem on the Catholicity of the Church
Augustine on the Mixed Nature of the Church
Boniface VIII on Papal Primacy: Unam Sanctam
Vatican I on the Nature of the Church
Henry Barclay Swete on the Apostolicity of the Church
Vatican II on the Nature of the Church

8 The Sacraments
Vatican II on the Sacraments
Edward Schillebeeckx on Understanding the Real Presence
Alexander Schmemann on the Eucharist

9 Other Religions
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10 Last Things
Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrection Body
Augustine on the Christian Hope
Helmut Thielicke on Ethics and Eschatology