Table of Contents

Part I: An Engaged Systematics
1: Credo
2: Summa
3: Dogmatics
4: So What is an Engaged Systematics?
Part II: Some Basics
5: Where We Must Begin
6: What We Need to Get Started
7: The Double Helix: Truth, Proclamation and Judgement
8: Faith Seeking Understanding: Life
9: What Makes Belief Believable
Part III: Ethical Life

About the Author

Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. His previous publications include Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don't (I.B.Taurus, 2013), The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Post-material Citizens (SCM, 2009), and True Religion (Wiley Blackwell, 2002). He is the co-editor of The
Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought (OUP, 2013).

Reviews

This is a sophisticated intervention in the field of systematic theology, worthy of careful attention.
*Andrew Errington, St Mark's National Theological Centre, Canberra, Australia, Studies in Christian Ethics*

[I]maginative and substantive... [W]e can wait for Ward's second volume in confidence it will be as interesting and as engaging as this book.
*Stanley Hauerwas, Modern Theology*

As far as recent systematic theologies go, Graham Ward's How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I is surely one of the most fascinating and ambitious ... How the Light Gets In proves not only remarkably successful in its endeavours (readable, learned, sharp) but also quite courageous.
*Jonathan Tran, Scottish Journal of Theology*

This is contemporary theology at its most provocative and compelling...Essential.
*CHOICE*

It is good to read an in-depth treatment of doctrinal theology that ranges so widely. Ward challenges the reader to think far beyond the standard mainstream of Christian sources, and to imagine how Christian theology can encompass the wideness of contemporary culture.
*Reading Religion*