Includes indexes.

1. Launching the journey -- The complex God question -- The task of Christian theology -- The paths being followed -- 2. Related but not diminished -- Theological renewal and nervousness -- The deeply moved "first mover" -- The theistic quest -- 3. Biblical appearances -- God known as God acts -- Motifs and appropriate adjectives -- Paradigm and name -- 4. The "classical" portrait -- The high-water mark of theology? -- In response to early challenges -- Current readings of the "classic" Christian tradition -- Theological types in church history -- The importance of theological history -- 5. Disappearance and reappearance -- Disappearance : domesticating deity -- Reappearance : let God be God! -- Coming, going, coming again -- 6. In experience, myth, and symbol -- A response-able God -- Contemporary priority of the existential -- Seeking the essence of being -- God in revelation and real history -- 7. A near-death experience -- God as irrelevant, then abhorrent -- Obituary for the divine -- The "finite" God of process -- Evil and the threat of a divine demise -- God may yet be alive! -- 8. Seen in suffering and marginalization -- Our suffering and God's -- Through the eyes of justice -- Gender and God -- 9. Over new horizons -- Living from the vision -- The theology of hope -- Dealing with diversity -- God and the future -- 10. Still the great three-in-one -- God as triadic community -- The enduring trinitarian focus -- The practical significance of trinitarianism -- Benediction.