Contents

Contents

Contents

Introduction

Part 1

THE PURPOSE, PLACE AND RELEVANCE OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

  1  Mere theology: the landscape of faith (1)

  2  Mere theology: the landscape of faith (2)

  3  The gospel and the transformation of reality: George Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’

  4  The cross, suffering and theological bewilderment: reflections on Martin Luther and C. S. Lewis

  5  The theatre of the glory of God: a Christian view of nature

  6  The tapestry of faith: theology and apologetics

Part 2

ENGAGING WITH OUR CULTURE

  7  The natural sciences: friends or foes of faith?

  8  Religious and scientific faith: the case of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species

  9  Augustine of Hippo on creation and evolution

10  Does religion poison everything? The new atheism and religious belief

11  Atheism and the Enlightenment: reflections on the intellectual roots of the new atheism

Notes

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