Tony Lane is Professor of Historical Theology and Director of research at the London School of Theology (formerly LBC) and author of Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue (T&T Clark, 2002) and The Lion Christian Classics Collection (2004)

• Introduction; Part 1: The Church of the Fathers to AD 500; Part 2: The Eastern Tradition; Part 3: The Medieval West; Part 4: Reformation and Reaction; Part 5: Christian Thought in the Modern World; The Liberals; The Evangelicals; The New Orthodoxy; The Existentialists; Other Developments; Process Theology; The Roman Catholics; A Worldwide Faith; World Council of Churches; Liberation Theology; Lausanne Congress.

"Praise for the first edition: 'This is a book which will prove exceptionally useful, not only to students, but to all those Christians...who know many of the names of the great Christian thinkers of past and present, but, in many cases, have only the vaguest impression of what they actually thought.... Each period has a brief scene-setting introduction, and each thinker is not only described but also quoted - a valuable feature because even a brief paragraph gives the reader something of the 'flavour' of the man's work' Richard Bauckham, Professor of New Testament, St Andrews University, in Third Way."