Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index.

The God of creation -- Creation ex nihilo -- Creation ex divino -- Creation by emanation -- Dualist accounts of creation -- Process accounts of God and creation -- Providence, creation and contingency -- The problem of evil and suffering -- Perspectives from other religions -- Human beings within God's creation -- The specialness of life in the cosmos -- Evolution and the creation of human beings -- Spirit and matter -- Human existence as social and historical -- Male and female : God created them? -- Subdue the earth? -- A brief look at Buddhist anthropology -- The structure of moral evil -- Evil and personal sin -- Sin as social and cultural -- Liberation theology and social sin -- Feminist theology and the critique of patriarchy -- The dialectic of transcendence and limitation -- Other religious traditions religions and the problem of evil -- Original sin -- Brief history of the doctrine of original sin -- Contemporary reflection on original sin -- Original sin as our universal victimhood -- The voice of original sin : the satan -- Original sin and other religious worldviews -- Jesus and the story of redemption -- The New Testament witness -- Early church images for redemption -- The beginnings of system in the Middle ages -- Modern accounts : the insights of Girard -- The two discourses of sacrifice -- Do other religions have Saviors? -- Grace and the supernatural -- Grace as healing -- The grace-sin dialectic -- The grace-nature distinction -- The natural desire to see God -- Can we experience grace? -- Providence and predestination -- Some practical insights into the life of grace -- Some recent ecumenical considerations -- Grace or enlightenment? -- Church and sacrament -- Church : the religious dimension -- Church : the moral dimension -- Church : the social dimension -- Church and Eucharist -- Religious and moral dimension -- The cultural dimension of Eucharist -- The social dimension of Eucharist -- Forgiveness and reconciliation -- Forgiveness and the individual -- Social and political dimensions of reconciliation -- Historical violence and the purification of memory -- Historical violence and the purification of memory -- Reconciliation as divine initiative -- Estranged from God : original sin -- Hostile in mind : reactive anger -- Doing evil deeds -- Holy, blameless and irreproachable : restorative justice -- Through the blood of the cross : identification with the victim -- Death and the after-life -- Life after death -- Platonic conception of soul -- Aristotelian conception of soul -- Death and sin -- Death and judgment -- Heaven and the beatific vision -- Hell and punishment -- Purgatory : a Catholic thing -- Afterlife in other traditions -- The end of all things -- Traditional eschatology -- End of history, end of cosmos? -- The resurrection of the dead -- Cosmic eschatology -- The resurrection of Jesus : what does it teach us? -- Final judgment.