The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology

William J. Abraham, Nicholas Adams, Allan Heaton Anderson, Andreas Andreopoulos, Edward Antonio, Kenneth Appold, Willem J. van Asselt, Paul Avis, Christine Axt-Piscalar, Lewis Ayres, Vincent Bacote, Gary D. Badcock, John F. Baldovin, Hans Barstad, The Rev. Dr Michael Battle, The Rev. Msgr Dr F. J. Baur, Nigel Biggar, André Bimerlé, Tina Beattie, Michael Bergmann, C. Clifton Black, Paul Blowers, Russel Botman, John Bowlin, Ian C. Bradley, Lucy Bregman, Luke Bretherton, James T. Bretzke, S.J., Lynn Bridgers, John P. Burgess, Stanley M. Burgess, David B. Burrell, Jason Byassee, Euan Cameron, Amy Carr, Augustine Casiday, Mark J. Cartledge, Christophe Chalamet, The Rev. Dr Mark Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, Philip Clayton, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Basil Cole, O.P., Tim Cooper, Paul Copan, M. Shawn Copeland, John Cottingham, S. Peter Cowe, James Cox, William Lane Craig, Shannon Craigo-Snell, Andrew Crislip, Garry J. Crites, The Rev. Dr Anthony R. Cross, Richard Crouter, Lawrence Cunningham, Mary B. Cunningham, Gavin D'Costa, Ivor Davidson, Douglas J. Davies, Andrew Dawson, Juliette Day, Paul DeHart, Ralph Del Colle, Gary Dorrien, Celia Deane-Drummond, Geoffrey Dunn, Mark Elliott, Noel Leo Erskine, Wendy Farley, Douglas Farrow, Richard K. Fenn, Paul S. Fiddes, Stephen Fields, S.J., Duncan Forrester, Paul Foster, Nancy Frankenberry, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Simon Gathercole, Michelle A. Gonzalez, Todd Gooch, Bruce Gordon, Elaine Graham, Gordon Graham, Janette Gray, Joel B. Green, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Michael Grimshaw, David Grumett, Ruben L. F. Habito, Roger Haight, S.J., Douglas John Hall, The Rev. Stuart George Hall, The Rev. Dr Harriet Harris, John F. Haught, Nicholas M. Healy, The Rev. Dr Brian Hebblethwaite, György Heidl, Charles C. Hefling, S. Mark Heim, Scott H. Hendrix, Alasdair Heron, Michael Higgins, Mike Higton, Mary Catherine Hilkert, Harvey Hill, Kenneth Einar Himma, Bradford Hinze, W. Andrew Hoffecker, Christopher R. J. Holmes, Edward Howells, Richard T. Hughe, The Rev. Msgr Kevin W. Irwin, Lisa Isherwood, Timothy P. Jackson, Paul D. Janz, Werner Jeanrond, Willis Jenkins, Robin M. Jensen, Darrell Jodock, Mark D. Jordan, David G. Kamitsuka, James F. Kay, H. A. Kelly, Daren Kemp, Fergus Kerr, O.P., FRSE, Thomas S. Kidd, Fr George Kilcourse, Sebastian C. H. Kim, Masami Kojiro, Steven Kraftchick, Alan Kreider, Peter A. Kwasniewski, Lai Pan-chiu, Dirk G. Lange, Jacqueline Lapsley, Emmanuel Y. Lartey, Gordon W. Lathrop, David R. Law, Frederick Lawrence, Bo Karen Lee, Sang Hyun Lee, Mark R. Lindsay, Thomas G. Long, Janice Love, Robin W. Lovin, Walter Lowe, Morwenna Ludlow, F. Thomas Luongo, Randy L. Maddox, Lois E. Malcolm, Mark H. Mann, William E. Mann, Neil A. Manson, George Marsden, Bruce D. Marshall, Hjamil A. Martinez-Vazquez, Rex Matthews, William C. Mattison, Bruce Lindley McCormack, Joy Ann McDougall, Bernard McGinn, Alister E. McGrath, John A. McGuckin, Esther McIntosh, Mark A. McIntosh, Steven A. McKinion, The Rev. Msgr Paul McPartlan, Néstor Medina, M. Douglas Meeks, Linda Mercadante, Paul Middleton, Daniel L. Migliore, Bruce Milem, Walter Moberly, Paul D. Molnar, The Rev. Dr Andrew Moore, Susan Hardman Moore, Christopher Morse, Christian Moser, Rachel Muers, Francesca Aran Murphy, David Nash, Mark Thiessen Nation, Craig L. Nessan, Olga Nesmiyanova, Peter Neuner, Damayanthi Niles, Paul T. Nimmo, The Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr, Thomas O'Loughlin, Simon Oliver, Roger E. Olson, Kenan B. Osborne, OFM, Gene Outka, Aristotle Papanikolaou, David Parker, George L. Parsenios, Paul Parvis, Bonnie L. Pattison, George Pattison, Amy Plantinga Pauw, Lori Pearson, Michael Davey Pearson, Clark Pinnock, Sarah Pinnock, Alyssa Lyra Pitstick, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Jean Porter, Robert W. Prichard, Inese Radzins, J. Paul Rajashekar, Shelly Rambo, Arne Rasmusson, Paul Rasor, Stephen G. Ray, Jr, Esther D. Reed, Fr Alexander Rentel, Joerg Rieger, Cynthia Rigby,

Ian A. McFarland is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Emory University. His publications include Difference and Identity: A Theological Anthropology (2001) and The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible God (2006).

David Fergusson is Professor of Divinity and Principal of New College at the University of Edinburgh. His recent publications include Church, State and Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Faith and its Critics (2009).

Karen Kilby is Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham and Vice-President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain. She is the author of A Brief Introduction to Karl Rahner (2007) and Rahner: Theology and Philosophy (2007).

Iain Torrance is President and Professor of Patristics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Christology After Chalcedon (1988) and was co-editor of To Glorify God: Essays in Modern Reformed Liturgy (1999) and The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology (2007).