Readings in Christian thought / edited by Hugh T. Kerr.

I. Orthodoxy and heresy in the early church
Plea for a fair hearing ; Worship and witness / Justin Martyr (c. 100-165)
A vision of truth / Perpetua (c. 181-203)
Perversions of the heretics ; The apostolic faith ; God is both creator and father ; The plan and purpose of God ; Priority of the apostolic tradition ; incarnation, recapitulation, redemption / Irenaeus (c. 130-202)
Why heresies arise ; Jerusalem and Athens ; The rule of faith ; Continuity of Christ in the church / Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220)
The apostolic doctrine ; Eternal generation of the Son ; How to interpret scripture ; That Christians are foolish and fearful ; That Christians are divisive ; That Christians are ignorant and stupid / Origen (c. 185-254)
The heart is restless ; Youthful fascination with sin ; Tolle, lege; tolle lege ; On time and eternity ; Christianity and the fall of Rome ; Foreknowledge and free will ; Mediator between God and man ; Space and time ; The church in the world ; Grace, free will, predestination / Augustine (354-430)
Two natures in one perso ; Union and distinction of natures ; On the worship of images / John of Damascus (c. 674-c. 749)
The ecumenical creeds ; Apostles' creed ; Nicene creed ; Symbol of Chalcedon ; Athanasian creed
II. Scholasticism and mysticism in the Middle Ages
A proof for the existence of God ; Christ's atonement for sin / Anselm (1033-1109)
God's love and redemption / Abelard (1079-1142)
The three kisses / Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Whether Christ is an adopted son / Peter Lombard (c. 1100-1160)
The canticle of brother sun / Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
Synopsis of the summa theologica ; Reason and revelation ; The existence of God ; The effects of sin ; Grace and justification ; Theopposite of hope- despair ; Humanity's restoration through Christ / Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
That the first principle is one / Duns Scotus (c. 1264-1308)
Universals and particulars ; Essence and existence / William Ockham (c. 1300-c. 1349)
Prayer of thanks and ecstacy / Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
The mother in the trinity / Julian of Norwich (1342-1423)
The discipline of the inner life / Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
III. Reformation and post-reformation
Sin and justification ; Three Romans walls ; Against transubstantiation ; Freedom and service ; The birth of Jesus / Martin Luther (1483-1546)
The Augsburg confession / Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
Necessity for reformation ; The Bible and the Word of God ; How do we know God? ; Sin and total depravity ; Christ: redeemer and savior ; Election and predestination ; Church and state / John Calvin (1509-1564)
Second Helvetic confession / Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
True faith leads to good works / Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
The church's teaching and tradition / The Council of Trent (1545-1563)
The community of the faithful / Menno Simons (1496-1561)
Of God's eternal decree ; Of God's covenant ; Of Christian liberty and liberty of conscience / The Westminster Confession of Faith (1643-1647)
Faith and social action / John Woolman (1720-1772)
Witness of the Spirit ; Character of a Methodist ; What is an Arminian? ; Christian perfection / John Wesley (1703-1791)
Hell fire and repentance ; True religion and true affections ; God is not the author of sin / Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
IV. Creative religious ideas in the modern age
Religion according to reason / Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
The essence of religion ; The essence of Christianity ; The person and work of Christ / Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
Gospel myth and religious idea / David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874)
The kingdom of God and the person of Christ / Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889)
Language, the gospel, and imagination / Horace Bushnell (1802-1876)
Development of Catholic doctrine / John Henry Hewman (1801-1890)
The ambiguous influence of religion / Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)
A woman looks at the Bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
The gospel in the gospel / Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
The psychology of conversion / William James (1842-1910)
The numinous in the holy / Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
Church-type and sect-type / Ernest Troeltsch (1865-1923)
The social gospel ; Socializing the kingdom / Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918)
V. The day before yesterday
Existence and subjectivity ; Christ as God incognito ; Whether Christianity exists / Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
On the Jesus of history / Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Revelation and the Bible ; The doctrine of election ; Theological anthropology / Karl Barth (1886-1968)
Biblical Christian anthropology ; Dialectic of sin and guild ; History as "finis" and "telos" / Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
The reasonableness of faith / Georgia Harkness (1891-1974)
Demythologizing the gospel / Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976)
Method of correlation ; Sin and estrangement ; Existence and the Christ / Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
Cheap grace and discipleship ; Religionless Christianity / Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
Pacem in terris / Pope John XXIII (1882-1963)
Theological anthropology ; What is a Christian? ; Vatican II and the future / Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
The monastery family ; Faith, reason, and will ; Salvation ; Seeds / Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Theology: for what? ; Dreaming dreams ; Tough mind, tender heart ; Mine eyes have seen / Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
VI. The contemporary quest.