Christian Theology: An Introduction

This edition of a textbook on Christian theology contains citations correlated with the material provided in the textbook “The Christian Theology Reader”. It includes major historical sections dealing with: Eastern Orthodoxy; Roman Catholicism; charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity; and Third-World Christianity. Major new theological sections include: the development of the discipline of theology; 20th-century ecclesiology; a specific section on the ecclesiology of Vatican II; and the 9th-century sacramental debates. Two chapters have been rewritten and expanded, “Christianity and the world religions” and “Last things”. Each bibliographical section now follows immediately after the chapter to which it refers. The glossary has been expanded. All the existing material from the first edition has been either retained or expanded. The glossary has been expanded.