John Allan Knight is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Marist College, where he teaches courses in religion and the U.S. Constitution, philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and a number of other religious studies courses. He holds degrees from Southern Nazarene University, George Washington University Law School, and the University of Chicago. Knight is the author of Liberalism vs. Postliberalism: The Great Divide in Twentieth Century Theology (2012), and a number of articles in both scholarly and popular journals. He is currently working on a book on religious freedom and the nature of religious claims.

Ian S. Markham is the Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and a priest in the Episcopal Church. He has degrees from King's College London, the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Exeter. He is the author of numerous books, including Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris are Fundamentally Wrong (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), The New Apologetics (2020), A Theology of Engagement (Blackwell, 2003), Truth and the Reality of God (1998), and Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994).

The Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Introduction xiii Part I God and the Incarnation 1 1 Knowing God through Religious Pluralism 3
Tinu Ruparell Research Level 2 3 2 Is It Possible for the Eternal Word to Be Made Manifest in a Person with Down's Syndrome? 19
Ian S. Markham Research Level 1 19 Part II God and Church 31 3 Racial Stigma and Southern Baptist Public Discourse in the Twentieth Century 33
Pamela D. Jones Research Level 1 33 4 The Plugged-in Church: Is it Appropriate to Baptize Artificial Intelligence 50
Ian S. Markham Research Level 1 50 Part III God and the World 63 5 Humanity: Where on Earth Have We Come From and Where Are We Going To? 65
Celia Deane-Drummond Research Level 3 65 6 What Challenges Does the Theory of Biological Evolution Pose to Christian Theology? 81
Christopher Southgate Research Level 3 81 Part IV God and Ethics 97 7 Sin and the Faces of Responsibility 99
Leigh Vicens Research Level 4 99 8 A Good Story: Human-Animal Friendship and Meat Eating 114
Trevor Bechtel Research Level 2 114 9 Just Business: It's Not What You Think 127
Kathryn D. Blanchard Research Level 2 127 Part V The End of the World 149 10 Relentless Love and the Afterlife 151
Thomas J. Oord Research Level 1 151 11 Hell: Retributivism, Escapism, and Universal Reconciliation 164
Andrei A. Buckareff Research Level 3 164 12 Christ Will Come Again 183Keith Ward Research Level 2 183 Part VI Method in Theology 195 13 Theological Language and Method in Liberal Theology: Schubert Ogden's Response to the Falsification Controversy 197
John Allan Knight Research Level 4 197 14 Does Culture Determine Belief? The Relationship between the Social Sciences and Theology 212
Martyn Percy Research Level 3 212 15 Theological Reference and Theological Creativity in Judaism 226
Cass Fisher Research Level 4 226 16 Marshall's Slingshot: Truth Theory, Realism, and Liberal Theological Method 245
John Allan Knight Research Level 4 245 Glossary 261 Index 266