Includes indexes.

1. Biblical foundations -- The old testament -- The synoptic gospels -- The post- Easter community; the acts -- Paul -- John -- Other new testament writers -- 2. Patristic and medieval developments -- Ante- Nicene fathers -- Post- Nicene Greek fathers -- Post- Nicene Latin fathers -- Early middle ages -- Golden age of scholasticism -- later middle ages -- 3. Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Reformation -- The catholic reaction; the council of tent -- Post- Tridentine controversial literature -- The English reformation -- Mysticism and Baroque scholasticism -- the salvation of the unevangelized -- the controversy about probabilism --Seventh- century rationalism and sentimentalism -- Eighteenth century: philosophers and evangelicals -- Catholic orthodoxy -- 4. Nineteenth century -- Protestant philosophical theologians -- Catholicism before Vatican I --Vatican council I -- Catholicism after Vatican I -- Liberal Protestantism -- 5. Early twentieth century -- Continuation of liberal Protestantism -- Orthodox reactions in Protestantism -- Catholic modernism -- Neo- scholasticism -- From Blondel to Rousselot -- 6. Mid twentieth century -- Dialectical theology -- Further developments in Protestantism -- Catholic phenomenology -- The "Nouvelle Tehologie" -- Catholic personalism -- Vatican council II -- 7. Recent developments -- theological aesthetics -- Transcendental theology -- Liberation theology -- Theology of hope -- Historical reason and anticipation -- Conservative evangelism -- 8. Models and issues -- Propositional model -- Transcendental model -- Fiducial model -- Affective- experiential model -- Obediential model -- praxis model -- personalist model -- models in dialogue -- Issues -- Prospectus -- 9. nature and object of faith -- nature of faith -- Formal object -- Material object -- Faith and the church -- Erroneous faith -- Faith and doctrine -- Propositional faith -- The question of ecclesiastical faith -- faith in private revelation -- 10. Grounding of faith -- Faith and reason -- evidence of credibility -- Supernatural helps -- Motives of credibility and of faith -- The experience of discovery -- Reasons and experience within faith -- 11. Properties of faith -- Supernaturality -- Freedom -- Certitude and doubt -- Obscurity --12. Development of faith -- baptized infants -- Birth of faith in adults -- increase of faith -- Psychology of faith development -- Decrease and loss of faith -- 13. Faith and salvation -- Necessity of faith -- faith of the unevangelized: Bible and magisterium -- faith of the unevangelized: Theological theories --14. Concluding synthesis -- The nature of faith --Attributes of faith -- the life of faith -- the universal call to faith -- Christian faith --