Includes bibliographical references (pages 894-916) and index.

1. The Knowledge of God -- The Discipline of Theology as Critical Dogmatics -- A Note on the 'Historicity' of the Resurrection of Jesus -- The Theology of the Word -- The Interpretation of Experience -- How Critical Dogmatics Is 'Critical' and 'Dogmatic' -- The Cognitive Claim -- Contextual Considerations -- After Christendom -- The Continuity Thesis -- Neither Univocity nor Analogy -- A Note on the Triadic Structure of Theological Knowledge -- A Note on Gendered Language -- Excursus: Perpetua and the Fatherhood of God -- 2. Preliminary Clarifications -- Odd Questions -- Excursus: Augustine, Luther, and the Critique of the Sovereign Self -- Odd Questions -- Is God Possible? -- Is Christ Necessary? -- Does Faith Justify? -- Excursus: On the Three Lutheranisms -- Are the Scriptures Holy?

3. The Theological Subject -- The 'Natural' Man (1 Cor. 2:14) -- John 20: Hearing Is Believing Is Seeing in a New Way -- Sinfulness -- Early Christian Baptism -- A Note on Apocalyptic Demonology -- Baptism as Rebirth into the Ecclesia -- Excursus: The Jeremias -- Aland Debate on Infant Baptism -- Baptism as Rebirth into the Ecclesia -- Luther's 'Baptizatus sum!' -- Menno Simons on the New Birth -- Karl Barth's Second 'Nein!' -- Concepts of Theological Subjectivity -- On the Plane of Immanence -- 4. Creator Spiritus -- Toward the Ecumenical Doctrine of Baptism -- The Way to Ecumenical Convergence on the Spirit -- Tritheism? -- The Paraclete of John 17 -- The Spirit as Unifier of the Sign and the Thing Signified -- Overcoming the Western 'tendency towards modalism' -- 'Sanctification': Holy Secularity in Fulfillment of Creation -- The Spirit's Mission to the Nations -- The Ministry of the Church --

Excursus: The Ordination of Women -- The Ministry of the Church -- An Alternative: Ephraim Radner's Brutal Unity -- A Note on the Eschaton of Judgment -- 5. The Objectivity of Faith -- Historicizing the Eschatological? -- The 'Theotokos' and Her Child -- Excursus: On Jewish Perplexity as a Principle Internal to Christology -- A Note on the Modern Marian Dogmas -- Modalist Confusions in Christology -- Realignment: The Christological Division of the Divisions -- New Testament Objectifications -- Stuhlmacher against Bultmann on Pauline Christology -- Marcus's Commentary on Mark -- Schnelle's John 6 -- The Truth of the Incarnation -- Eucharistic Controversies regarding the Objectivity of Christ's Presence for Faith -- Christology -- Toward the Ecumenical Doctrine of the Eucharistic Meal -- The Unity of Christ's Person -- Excursus: 'The Deity Has Withdrawn' -- The Christological Way between Schleiermacher and Barth

Salvation in Christ -- The Prophet of the Reign of God -- The Intercession of Christ -- An Alternative: Marilyn McCord Adams's Christ and the Defeat of Horrors -- A Note on the Parousia of Christ -- 7. The Audience of Theology -- Conscience and Theology -- God after God -- The Faith of Jesus in the Heavenly Father -- 'Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name...' -- 'Thy kingdom come! Thy will be done on earth as in heaven...' -- A Note on the Faith of the 'Historical' Jesus Formulated in the Lord's Prayer -- 'Thy kingdom come...!' -- 'Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us...' -- 'And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever. Amen.' -- God Surpassing God -- Missio Dei -- A Note on Islam as the Judgment of God on Christendom

8. The Almighty Father -- Toward the Ecumenical Doctrine of Confession -- A Note on Pastoral and Liturgical Theology -- Toward the Ecumenical Doctrine of Confession -- A Note on Creation Faith and the Scientific Understanding of Nature -- The Almighty Agent of Eschatological Creation -- Genesis as Promise -- God's Time, Created Time, and the Divine Decree -- Problems of Evil -- Structures for Justice and Love -- Whether God Exists... -- Divine Being -- Doxological Analytic of the Holy Existence -- An Alternative: Brueggemann's Conflicted Yahweh -- The Theodicy of Faith -- The Circle Spirals -- The Eternal Trinity and the Life Eternal -- God Is the Eschaton of Judgment -- The Co-Equal Trinity in Anticipation of Glory -- Eternal Life.