For those who want a lucid, challenging and deeply thoughtful presentation of theology at its best, this is the book... a must-read for all who are searching for meaning and a current theological landscape.'

• 1. "First theology": Meditations in a postmodern toolshed Part One: God 2. Does the Trinity belong in a theology of religions? On angling in the Rubicon 3. The love of God: its place, meaning and function in systematic theology 4. Effectual call or causal effect? Summons, sovereignty and supervenient grace Part Two: Scripture 5. God's might speech acts 6. From speech acts to Scripture acts: the covenant of discourse & the discourse of the covenant Part Three: Hermeneutics 7. The Spirit of understanding 8. The reader at the well: responding to John 4 9. The Hermeneutics of I-witness testimony: John 21:20-24 and the death of the author 10. Body-piercing, the natural sense, and the task of theological interpretation: a hermeneutical homily on John 19:34 11. The world well-staged? God, Scripture, and cultural hermeneutics 12. The trials of truth: mission, martyrdom, and the epistemology of the cross

For those who want a lucid, challenging and deeply thoughtful presentation of theology at its best, this is the book... a must-read for all who are searching for meaning and a current theological landscape.'

• 1. "First theology": Meditations in a postmodern toolshed Part One: God 2. Does the Trinity belong in a theology of religions? On angling in the Rubicon 3. The love of God: its place, meaning and function in systematic theology 4. Effectual call or causal effect? Summons, sovereignty and supervenient grace Part Two: Scripture 5. God's might speech acts 6. From speech acts to Scripture acts: the covenant of discourse & the discourse of the covenant Part Three: Hermeneutics 7. The Spirit of understanding 8. The reader at the well: responding to John 4 9. The Hermeneutics of I-witness testimony: John 21:20-24 and the death of the author 10. Body-piercing, the natural sense, and the task of theological interpretation: a hermeneutical homily on John 19:34 11. The world well-staged? God, Scripture, and cultural hermeneutics 12. The trials of truth: mission, martyrdom, and the epistemology of the cross

For those who want a lucid, challenging and deeply thoughtful presentation of theology at its best, this is the book... a must-read for all who are searching for meaning and a current theological landscape.'

• 1. "First theology": Meditations in a postmodern toolshed Part One: God 2. Does the Trinity belong in a theology of religions? On angling in the Rubicon 3. The love of God: its place, meaning and function in systematic theology 4. Effectual call or causal effect? Summons, sovereignty and supervenient grace Part Two: Scripture 5. God's might speech acts 6. From speech acts to Scripture acts: the covenant of discourse & the discourse of the covenant Part Three: Hermeneutics 7. The Spirit of understanding 8. The reader at the well: responding to John 4 9. The Hermeneutics of I-witness testimony: John 21:20-24 and the death of the author 10. Body-piercing, the natural sense, and the task of theological interpretation: a hermeneutical homily on John 19:34 11. The world well-staged? God, Scripture, and cultural hermeneutics 12. The trials of truth: mission, martyrdom, and the epistemology of the cross