Table of Contents

Publisher's Note     vii
Tribute to Shirley C. Guthrie Jr.   Charles B. Cousar     ix
Preface to First Edition, 1996     xvii
Introduction: A Tale of Two Churches     xix
The Double Crisis of Identity and Relevance     1
The Religious Relativism of the Reformed Tradition     11
Reformed by Faith in the Living Triune God     27
Suffering, Liberation, and the Sovereignty of God     41
Jesus Christ and the Religions of the World     57
Worldly Spirituality     73
Trinity and Church: Is the Church an Image of the Trinity?   Daniel L. Migliore     89
Church Practices for a Worldly Spirituality   Amy Plantinga Pauw     105
God's Freedom from and for the World   George W. Stroup     121
Notes     141
Contributors     155