Australian-born Gerald O'Collins, SJ, AC, took his PhD at the University of Cambridge and taught at the Gregorian University (Rome) from 1973 to 2006, where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Theology (1985-91). He has written or co-written sixty published books (including Rethinking Fundamental Theology, Jesus Our Priest, and Salvation for All), authored hundreds of articles in professional and popular journals, and lectured at many universities and colleges in the UK, Ireland, USA, India, New Zealand, his native Australia, and elsewhere. As well as receiving numerous doctorates and other honorary awards, in 2006 he was created a Companion of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC), the highest civil honour granted through the Australian government.

O'Collins's book is interesting as it interacts in illuminating fashion with official Roman Catholic teaching and documents, particularly from the Second Vatican Council. In his attempt to distinguish between God's self-revelation and the propositional content that it generates, O'Collins identifies important questions concerning what Christians are able to say with confidence about God when revelation is seen in personal and relational terms. The proposal to distinguish between revelation and inspiration is well made and the insistence that reception is considered an integral aspect of the event of revelation is important.

• Abbreviations 1: Revelation as Self-revelation and Communication of Truth 2: The Love that Reveals and Conceals 3: Revelation Informs and Transforms 4: The Sacramental Character of Divine Self-revelation 5: Means and Mediators of Revelation 6: Believers Receive Revelation and Are Themselves Revealed 7: Evidence for Revelation and Human Freedom 8: Revelation Then, Now, and To Come 9: Handing on Revelation: the Role of Tradition 10: Revelation and Inspiration 11: The Canon and Truth of Scriptures 12: The Divine Revelation Reaching the 'Others' Epilogue Appendix: The Inspiring Power of Scripture Select Bibliography Index of Names Biblical Index

Australian-born Gerald O'Collins, SJ, AC, took his PhD at the University of Cambridge and taught at the Gregorian University (Rome) from 1973 to 2006, where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Theology (1985-91). He has written or co-written sixty published books (including Rethinking Fundamental Theology, Jesus Our Priest, and Salvation for All), authored hundreds of articles in professional and popular journals, and lectured at many universities and colleges in the UK, Ireland, USA, India, New Zealand, his native Australia, and elsewhere. As well as receiving numerous doctorates and other honorary awards, in 2006 he was created a Companion of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC), the highest civil honour granted through the Australian government.

O'Collins's book is interesting as it interacts in illuminating fashion with official Roman Catholic teaching and documents, particularly from the Second Vatican Council. In his attempt to distinguish between God's self-revelation and the propositional content that it generates, O'Collins identifies important questions concerning what Christians are able to say with confidence about God when revelation is seen in personal and relational terms. The proposal to distinguish between revelation and inspiration is well made and the insistence that reception is considered an integral aspect of the event of revelation is important.

• Abbreviations 1: Revelation as Self-revelation and Communication of Truth 2: The Love that Reveals and Conceals 3: Revelation Informs and Transforms 4: The Sacramental Character of Divine Self-revelation 5: Means and Mediators of Revelation 6: Believers Receive Revelation and Are Themselves Revealed 7: Evidence for Revelation and Human Freedom 8: Revelation Then, Now, and To Come 9: Handing on Revelation: the Role of Tradition 10: Revelation and Inspiration 11: The Canon and Truth of Scriptures 12: The Divine Revelation Reaching the 'Others' Epilogue Appendix: The Inspiring Power of Scripture Select Bibliography Index of Names Biblical Index

Australian-born Gerald O'Collins, SJ, AC, took his PhD at the University of Cambridge and taught at the Gregorian University (Rome) from 1973 to 2006, where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Theology (1985-91). He has written or co-written sixty published books (including Rethinking Fundamental Theology, Jesus Our Priest, and Salvation for All), authored hundreds of articles in professional and popular journals, and lectured at many universities and colleges in the UK, Ireland, USA, India, New Zealand, his native Australia, and elsewhere. As well as receiving numerous doctorates and other honorary awards, in 2006 he was created a Companion of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC), the highest civil honour granted through the Australian government.

O'Collins's book is interesting as it interacts in illuminating fashion with official Roman Catholic teaching and documents, particularly from the Second Vatican Council. In his attempt to distinguish between God's self-revelation and the propositional content that it generates, O'Collins identifies important questions concerning what Christians are able to say with confidence about God when revelation is seen in personal and relational terms. The proposal to distinguish between revelation and inspiration is well made and the insistence that reception is considered an integral aspect of the event of revelation is important.

• Abbreviations 1: Revelation as Self-revelation and Communication of Truth 2: The Love that Reveals and Conceals 3: Revelation Informs and Transforms 4: The Sacramental Character of Divine Self-revelation 5: Means and Mediators of Revelation 6: Believers Receive Revelation and Are Themselves Revealed 7: Evidence for Revelation and Human Freedom 8: Revelation Then, Now, and To Come 9: Handing on Revelation: the Role of Tradition 10: Revelation and Inspiration 11: The Canon and Truth of Scriptures 12: The Divine Revelation Reaching the 'Others' Epilogue Appendix: The Inspiring Power of Scripture Select Bibliography Index of Names Biblical Index