First, this is a book about doing theology, emphasizing not so much content but theology as an activity, a process. Second, this is a book about doing Catholic theology, that is to say anchored in Scripture but also as interpreted by ecclesial Tradition and Magisterium, theology rooted in the experience that the divine is to be found in a sacramental world and community. At a third level, Bevans describes systematic theology as reflection upon the central teachinkgs of the church - creation, sin, redemption, Trinity, anthropology, salvation and eternal life, ecclesiology. And a fourth key insight, the contextual nature of theology, as it makes sense of life in a global world shot through with cultural and religious plurality.

Stephen B. Bevans, SVD, is the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD, Professor of Theology and Culture at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He is author of Models of Contextual Theology and, with Roger P. Schroeder, Constants in Context.

Abbreviations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Doing Theology	p. 1
Doing Catholic Theology	p. 1
Doing Catholic Systematic Theology	p. 2
Doing Catholic Systematic Theology in Global Perspective	p. 3
Faith Seeking Understanding: The Nature of Theology
Mystery and Revelation 9
Knowing the Unknowable God	p. 10
Knowing the Mystery	p. 13
The Mystery of Revelation	p. 16
Where Revelation Is Found	p. 18
Revelation as Personal Encounter	p. 23
Revelation in Context	p. 24
Conclusion	p. 25
Questions for Reflection	p. 26
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 26
Faith and Theology	p. 27
The Dynamics of Faith	p. 27
Faith as Gift/Faith and Doubt	p. 31
The Notion of Theology	p. 33
Faith-Seeking-Understanding	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 43
Questions for Reflection	p. 44
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 44
Faith Seeking Understanding in a Global Church	p. 45
"Variations" on a Theological Theme	p. 45
Conclusion	p. 58
Questions for Reflection	p. 59
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 59
Faith Seeking Together: The Ecclesial Nature of Theology
The Community as Source of Theology Doing Theology in Community	p. 65
Theological Foundations	p. 65
Doing Theology in Community	p. 81
Conclusion	p. 87
Questions for Reflection	p. 88
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 88
Community as Source and Parameter of Theology: Theology and Tradition	p. 89
Human Existence as Traditional	p. 90
The Twofold Nature of Tradition	p. 91
Christian Tradition	p. 92
The Development of Tradition	p. 98
Conclusion	p. 106
Questions for Reflection	p. 108
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 108
Community as the Parameter of Theology: Theology and the Magisterium
The Concept of the Magisterium	p. 110
Theologians and the Magisterium	p. 122
The Magisterium and Dissent	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 132
Questions for Reflection	p. 132
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 133
The Way Faith Seeks: Theological Methods
Historical Investigation and Theological Reflection: Classical and Contemporary Methods
A Twofold Movement: Historical Investigation and Theological Reflection	p. 138
Doing Theology as Critical Reflection on Praxis	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 162
Questions for Reflection	p. 163
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 163
Contextual Methods	p. 164
Theology and Context	p. 165
Models of Contextual Theology	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 187
Questions for Reflection?	p. 188
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 188
Catholic Method	p. 189
The Vision of Catholicism	p. 189
Tensions in the Vision	p. 197
Catholicism and Fundamentalism	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 202
Questions for Reflection	p. 203
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 203
Faith Seeking through the Ages: Theology, History, and Culture
Christian Theology from the Beginnings to 1000	p. 207
Theology in the New Testament	p. 208
Theology in the Second and Third Centuries	p. 210
Theology from 300 to 600	p. 218
Theology from 600 to 1000	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 237
Questions for Reflection	p. 237
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 238
Christian Theology from 1000 to 1700	p. 239
Theology from 1000 to 1500	p. 240
Theology from 1500 to 1700	p. 258
Theology in 1700	p. 272
Questions for Reflection	p. 272
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 273
Christian Theology in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries xp274
Theology in the Eighteenth Century	p. 275
Catholic Theology in the Nineteenth Century	p. 279
Protestant and Anglican Theology in the NineteenthCentury	p. 285
Theology from 1900 to the Great War	p. 291
Conclusion	p. 293
Questions for Reflection	p. 294
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 295
Christian Theology from the Twentieth Century to the Present	p. 296
Theology from 1914 to the Second Vatican Council	p. 297
Theology from Vatican II to the Present	p. 308
Conclusion	p. 321
Questions for Reflection	p. 322
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study	p. 322
Conclusion	p. 324
Notes	p. 325
Index	p. 374
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