Wesley Vander Lugt is Acting Director of the Leighton Ford Initiative in Theology, the Arts & Gospel Witness and Adjuct Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, USA. He is also an ordained Presbyterian minister and cofounder of the nonprofit Kinship Plot.

• AcknowledgementsForeword: Kelly M. KapicIntroduction1. Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (1821)2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1821)3. Søren Kierkegaard, Practice in Christianity (1850)4. Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology (1871-72)5. Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)6. Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker (1941)7. Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (1957)8. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (1932-1967)9. James Cone, Black Theology and Black Power (1969)10. Kosuke Koyama, Water Buffalo Theology (1974)11. José Míguez Bonino, Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (1975)12. George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (1984)13. Sallie McFague, Models of God: Theology for an Ecumenical, Nuclear Age (1987)14. Kwame Bediako, Theology and Identity: The Impact of Culture Upon Christian Thought in the Second Century and in Modern Africa (1992)15. Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (1993)Index

One of the virtues of Wesley Vander Lugt's book is the encouragement to read the classics and especially those outside the box of the usual theological texts and helpful introductions that explain why. A very accessible introductory text.