Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: God in Scripture -- Part Two: God in the Living Tradition -- Part Three: Encountering God -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- 1. In the Beginning -- 2. God with Us -- 3. God the Spirit -- 4. The Triune God -- 5. Speaking of God -- 6. God, Faith and Knowledge -- 7. Experience of God -- 8. God and Evil -- 9. God in History -- Clearing the Ground -- Appealing to the Bible -- God and Creation -- God's Sovereignty -- God's Great Adventure -- The Crucial Great Escape -- Covenant and Commandments -- Give Us a King -- Powerful Prophetic Words -- God's Strange Presence -- Jesus in Context -- Beginning the Ministry -- The Kingdom in Conflict -- The Disturbing Figure of Jesus -- Removing This Dangerous Man -- Incarnation and New Creation -- The Ascended Lord -- The Fullest Revelation of God -- The Powerful Metaphor of Spirit -- The Spirit and Jesus -- The Acts of the Spirit -- Conflict Again -- Marks of the New People -- The Spirit of Unity and Peace -- Discerning the Work of the Spirit -- Divine, Holy Spirit of God -- Gesticulating with Words? -- Doctrine and Development -- Before and After Nicaea -- Analogies of the Trinity -- Practising Trinitarian Theology -- Speaking of the Incomprehensible God -- Attend to the Written Word -- The Fundamental Distinction -- A Way Out of Silence -- The Lost Art of Being a Creature -- On Knowing What You're Talking About -- Listening to and Interpreting Scripture -- New Insights -- Trusting the Witnesses -- Faith - Reason - Practice -- Examples of Faith in Practice -- The Beginning and the End is Worship -- What is Experience? -- Experiencing God Unawares? -- Stories in the Bible -- Stories Outside the Bible -- Analyzing Expeience of God -- Facing Evil -- From Augustine to Auschwitz.

Does God Suffer? -- Challenging the Suffering God -- Redeeming Sorrows -- An Audacious Hope -- The Beginnings of Eschatology in Scripture -- The Apocalyptic Politics of Jesus -- People of Hope -- Practices of Hope.