The Christian Theology Reader

This bestselling volume is now available in a fully updated and expanded fourth edition, bringing together 378 readings, drawn from over 230 sources, and charting 2,000 years of Christian history.

• Each reading is accompanied by its own introduction, commentary and study questions, and illustrates a key doctrine, point of view, intellectual development, or theological landmark
• Includes several new readings on religion and science, an expanded coverage of feminist theological voices, extracts from radical Protestant perspectives, and more contemporary theology
• Features additional writers, including: Pope Benedict XVI, John Polkinghorne, John Milbank, Elizabeth A. Johnson, and John Yoder
• May be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside Christian Theology: An Introduction, 5^th edition for a complete overview of the subject
• Accompanied by a fully revised and expanded website, available on publication, featuring useful instructor and student resources, including study questions and answers, quizzes, podcast lecturers from Alister McGrath, and multiple choice questions; visit www.wiley.com/go/mcgrath for more details

This Reader brings together 324 seminal texts of Christian theology, drawn from more than 200 different sources throughout the two thousand years of Christian history.

• Follows the same structure as its companion volume, Christian Theology: An Introduction, or it can easily be used as a freestanding resource.
  
  
• Contains more classical and multicultural readings to supplement the wide-ranging collection of the first edition.
  
  
• Features updated study panels, introductions to every reading, bibliographies, a substantially revised and expanded glossary and study questions, as well as full cross-referencing.
  
  
• Includes a new section on 'Theological Resources on the Internet'.
  
  
• Won a Christianity Today book award in its first edition.

More details on the third edition of The Christian Theology Reader can be found on the following website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcgrath

Alister E McGrath is Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University. He is the author of numerous bestselling books. His previous publications with Blackwell Publishers include: Christian Literature: An Anthology (2000), Christian Spirituality (1999) Reformation Thought 3rd edition (1999), Historical Theology (1998), Science and Religion (1998), and An Introduction to Christianity (1997), amongst many others.