Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part One Introductory Overview -- Introduction Why This Volume -- Chapter One Religious Orthodoxy as a Modalit y of "Adaptation" -- Part Two Biblical Studies -- Chapter Two Does an Exclusive Veneration of God Necessarily Have to Be Violent? Israel's Stony Way to Monotheism and Some Theological Consequences -- Chapter Three Coping with Violence in the Bible: A Response to Rainer Albertz -- Chapter Four "Common Judaism", "the Parting of the Ways", and "the Johannine Community" -- Part Three Historical Studies -- Chapter Five Believing, Belonging, and Adapting: The Case of Religious Modernism -- Chapter Six "When Creed and Morals Rot ...": Orthodoxies versus Liberalisms in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands Reformed Church -- Chapter Seven Truth, Orthodoxy, and the Nouvelle Théologie: Truth as Issue in a "Second Modernist Crisis" (1946-1950) -- Part Four Systematic Studies -- Chapter Eight Orthodoxy, History and Theology: Recontextualisation and Its Descriptive and Programmatic Features -- Chapter Nine Orthopraxis and Being Faithful to One's Tradition -- Chapter Ten Reconstructing the Change from Judaism to Christianity as a Paradigm Shift -- Chapter Eleven Christian Fundamentalism as a Reaction to the Enlightenment Illustrated by the Case of Biblical Inerrancy -- Part Five Conclusions -- Chapter Twelve The Ambivalence of Adaptation and the Ongoing Strength of Religion -- Bibliography -- Index of Texts -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.