This series explores the resources on which Christian theology is based, and provides an introduction to every major area of theology. Particular attention is paid to the way in which theology is grounded in, and makes use of Scripture. Listeners will be acquainted with the history of Christian theology and will engage directly with primary texts from leading Christian theologians.

1. Intro: Scripture & Theology; Tradition & Scripture
2. Revelation in Scripture & Nature
3. Talking about God; God as Creator
4. God as a Person
5. The Basics of Trinity; Models of the Trinity
6. The Holy Spirit
7. Christology: NT Foundations; Historical Development
8. Christology: Faith and History
9. Soteriology: NT Basics; Victory and Forgiveness
10. Soteriology: Victory and Forgiveness(con't); Love
11. The Pelagian Controversy; The Reformation
12. Grace: Predestination
13. Doctrine of the Church; Doctrine of Sacraments
14. Pluralism; Doctrine of the Last Things
15. In Greater Depth: Jesus Christ; Scripture
16. In Greater Depth: Modernism

Alister E. McGrath MA, Dphil, DD (Oxford University). Professor, Historical Theology, Oxford University. Director of the Oxford Centre for Evangelism and Apologetics. Teaching Fellow, Regent College. Some of his more recent books are A Scientific Theology, a groundbreaking work of systematic theology in three volumes: Nature, Reality and Theory, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World and Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life.