Alexander J. D. Irving is visiting lecturer at the London School of Theology and serving a curacy at St Stephen’s Church in Norwich.

This probing and wide-ranging study engages sympathetically with my father’s account of theological knowledge in the 1970s and 1980s and successfully brings it into dialogue with contemporary forms of theological method. At the heart of it is a deft reconstruction of my father’s conviction that the incarnation of the Word gave determinative shape to subsequent theology, holding rational structure and material content in interplay. It is an excellent contribution to constructive theology.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: The Synthesis of Discursive Reason and ExperienceChapter One: RealityChapter Two: ObjectivityChapter Three: LogicPart Two: Natural TheologyChapter Four: The Rejection of Autonomous Natural TheologyChapter Five: The Reconstruction of Natural TheologyChapter Six: Natural Theology and Theological ScienceConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Alexander J. D. Irving is visiting lecturer at the London School of Theology and serving a curacy at St Stephen’s Church in Norwich.

This probing and wide-ranging study engages sympathetically with my father’s account of theological knowledge in the 1970s and 1980s and successfully brings it into dialogue with contemporary forms of theological method. At the heart of it is a deft reconstruction of my father’s conviction that the incarnation of the Word gave determinative shape to subsequent theology, holding rational structure and material content in interplay. It is an excellent contribution to constructive theology.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: The Synthesis of Discursive Reason and ExperienceChapter One: RealityChapter Two: ObjectivityChapter Three: LogicPart Two: Natural TheologyChapter Four: The Rejection of Autonomous Natural TheologyChapter Five: The Reconstruction of Natural TheologyChapter Six: Natural Theology and Theological ScienceConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Alexander J. D. Irving is visiting lecturer at the London School of Theology and serving a curacy at St Stephen’s Church in Norwich.

This probing and wide-ranging study engages sympathetically with my father’s account of theological knowledge in the 1970s and 1980s and successfully brings it into dialogue with contemporary forms of theological method. At the heart of it is a deft reconstruction of my father’s conviction that the incarnation of the Word gave determinative shape to subsequent theology, holding rational structure and material content in interplay. It is an excellent contribution to constructive theology.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: The Synthesis of Discursive Reason and ExperienceChapter One: RealityChapter Two: ObjectivityChapter Three: LogicPart Two: Natural TheologyChapter Four: The Rejection of Autonomous Natural TheologyChapter Five: The Reconstruction of Natural TheologyChapter Six: Natural Theology and Theological ScienceConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author