Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-367) and indexes.

Introduction to The language and imagery of the Bible by G.B. Caird -- The Lord's Prayer as a paradigm of Christian prayer -- God and Caesar, then and now -- Christian origins and the question of God -- Faith, virtue, justification, and the journey to freedom -- Neither anarchy nor tyranny: government and the New Testament -- The bishop and living under Scripture -- Imagining the Kingdom: mission and theology in early Christianity -- Revelation and Christian hope: political implications of the Revelation to John -- The monarchs and the message: reflections on Bible translation from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century -- Joy: some New Testament perspectives and questions -- Pastoral theology for perplexing topics: Paul and adiaphora -- Apocalyptic and the sudden fulfilment of divine promise -- The Bible and Christian mission -- Wouldn't you love to know? Towards a Christian view of reality -- Signs and means of new creation: public worship and the creative reading of Scripture -- The powerful breath of the new creation -- Sacred space in the city -- Foreword to The church and Its vocation: Lesslie Newbigin's missionary ecclesiology by Michael Goheen -- The Honest to God controversy -- Christ and the cosmos: kingdom and creation in Gospel perspective -- Get the story right and the models will fit: victory through substitution in 'atonement theology.'