Introduction to Christian Theology: A Comprehensive, Systematic and Biblically Based Approach

- Introduces readers to the biblical foundations and key methodological questions for theology: faith and reason, the nature of religious authority, the place of experience, revelation, Scripture and tradition, orthodoxy and heresy, and the importance of context (both historical and geographical)
- Provides a comprehensive overview of all the major doctrinal topics (loci) of the Christian faith (the Trinity, Christology, pneumatology, soteriology, ecclesiology, eschatology, etc.), with emphasis on their coherence and interdependence
- Highlights the most important issues currently being debated within each topic (including perspectives from black, feminist, postcolonial, queer and other theologies)
- Profiles the major theologians who have contributed to each topic, offering a broader perspective on the angles taken by distinct figures in the history of theology
- Encourages readers to think theologically in connection with contemporary questions, e.g. the local vs. the global, issues of gender, race, ecology and the theology of religions
- Adopts a balanced, ecumenical approach, looking at the contributions of all the major branches of the Church to the inheritance of theology today, and demonstrating the breadth and richness of Christian tradition

Tom Greggs FRSE is the Marischal Professor of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen, a founding co-director of the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology and an Honorary Professor of Theology at St Mellitus College, London.

Tom serves on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, having been elected in 2015, and on the Faith and Order Committee of the Methodist Church. He regularly leads Continuing Professional Development for clergy, speaks at large church conferences, and appears on the radio.

Tom’s previous publications include Dogmatic Ecclesiology (Baker, 2019), Theology against Religion: Constructive Dialogues with Bonhoeffer and Barth (T&T Clark, 2011), New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology (Routledge, 2010) and Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation (OUP, 2009)

He is the editor of Brill’s Companions to Modern Theology series and co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press Critical History of Theology series.