Graham Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch. Among his books are Cities of God (Routledge), Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (CUP), True Religion (Blackwell), Christ and Culture (Blackwell), The Politics of Discipleship (Baker Academic) and Unbelievable (I.B.Tauris). Along with Michael Hoelzl, he is also the translator of two of Carl Schmitt's works: Political Theology II (Polity) and Dictatorship (Polity).

For anyone interested in learning how systematic theology should be done in the 21st century: read and learn well from this volume. Allow Ward to teach you theological courage; strategies for lively engagement with the arts; and committed, faithful omnivorousness. I can hardly wait to read the next two instalments of Ethical Life.

• Introit: Consonance Christology 1: The Haunting of Christ: Christology and Affect 2: Time, Grace, and Mythic Sensibility 3: Christ as Riddle 4: Christ as Scandal 5: Christ as Paradox: 'Nature' in Inverted Commas Creation 6: Creation as Triune Joy 7: Complating Nothing 8: Ecce Homo: Who We Are 9: Sighs for Eden 10: Exile and Alienation Extroit: Complex Ecologies

Graham Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch. Among his books are Cities of God (Routledge), Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (CUP), True Religion (Blackwell), Christ and Culture (Blackwell), The Politics of Discipleship (Baker Academic) and Unbelievable (I.B.Tauris). Along with Michael Hoelzl, he is also the translator of two of Carl Schmitt's works: Political Theology II (Polity) and Dictatorship (Polity).

For anyone interested in learning how systematic theology should be done in the 21st century: read and learn well from this volume. Allow Ward to teach you theological courage; strategies for lively engagement with the arts; and committed, faithful omnivorousness. I can hardly wait to read the next two instalments of Ethical Life.

• Introit: Consonance Christology 1: The Haunting of Christ: Christology and Affect 2: Time, Grace, and Mythic Sensibility 3: Christ as Riddle 4: Christ as Scandal 5: Christ as Paradox: 'Nature' in Inverted Commas Creation 6: Creation as Triune Joy 7: Complating Nothing 8: Ecce Homo: Who We Are 9: Sighs for Eden 10: Exile and Alienation Extroit: Complex Ecologies