Brief Theology of Revelation

Until his recent death, Colin Gunton was Professor of Christian Doctrine, King's College, London.

• Preface; Lecture 1 'A revealed religion'?: The Problem of Revelation in Modern Theology; I The Problem of Immediacy; II Unfair to Propositions; III Credal Propositionality; IV Summary and Conclusion; Lecture 2 The Authority of the Other: Towards a General Theology of Revelation; I The Problem; II Personal Revelation; III The Revelation of Nature; IV The Concept of Revelation; V Conclusion; Lecture 3 'No other foundation'?: Revelation and the Theology of Nature; I 'General revelation' II The God Made Known in Creation; III The Christological Factor; IV General Revelation and Natural Theology; Lecture 4 'All scripture is inspired'?: Revelation and Inspiration: the Problem of Scripture; I The Spirit and the Letter; II The Problem of Historicity; III Revelation and the Problem of the Past; IV Conclusion and Transition; Lecture 5 'Truth, the daughter of time'?: Revelation, Church and Tradition; I Two Metaphors; II Towards a Conception of Tradition; III Tradition and History; IV Conclusion; Lecture 6 Varieties of Mediation: Towards a Theology of Revelation; I The Story So Far; II Revelation and the Economy of Divine Action; III Anticipations of Glory; IV Revelation and the Golry of the Crucified; V Varieties of Mediation, But One Lord; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects; Index of Scriptural References