Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Volume 1. Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction to Volume 1 -- Part I. Prospect -- ʹ1. The Radical Road One Baptist Took (2000) -- Part II. Early Baptist Reflections -- ʹ2. Creation, Humanity, Sin (1964) -- ʹ3. Atonement, Discipleship, and Freedom (1964) -- ʹ4. Death, Resurrection, Survival, and Immortality (1964) -- ʹ5. A Brief Narrative Account of My Professional Life and Work to the Present (1969) -- ʹ6. Some Reflections on the Future of Trinitarianism (1966) -- ʹ7. Baptism as a Performative Sign (1966) -- Part III. Focusing the baptist Vision -- ʹ8. A Decade of Deeds and Dreams: My History Continued, 1969-1978(1978) -- ʹ9. What Is a 'baptist' Theology? (1982) -- ʹ10. The Concept of Authority. A Baptist View (1988) -- ʹ11. Primitive, Present, Future: A Vision for the Church in the Modern World (1991) -- ʹ12. The Mennonite and Baptist Vision (1993) -- ʹ13. The Voluntary Church in the Twenty-First Century (1998) -- Part IV. Social Ethics for Radical Christians -- ʹ14. Social Ethics for Radical Christians: Analysis and Program (1989) -- ʹ15. The End of the World (1989) -- ʹ16. The Church Seeking a Peaceable Culture: The Way of the Cross (1995) -- ʹ17. The Church Seeking a Peaceable Culture: The Way of the Resurrection (1995) -- ʹ18. Knowing the One Thing Needful (1995) -- ʹ19. The Politics of Forgiveness (1998) -- Part V. Paths to Catholicity: The baptist Path -- ʹ20. What Is a Southern Baptist Ecumenism? (1968) -- ʹ21. Christian Identity in Ecumenical Perspective (with John Howard Yoder) (1990) -- ʹ22. Balthasar Hubmaier, Catholic Anabaptist (1991) -- ʹ23. Law and Faith (1994) -- ʹ24. A baptist Millennium? (1998) -- Part VI. Retrospect -- ʹ25. Embodying the Great Story: An Interview with James Wm. McClendon, Jr. (2000) -- Permissions for Volume 1 -- Scripture Index for Volume 1 -- General Index for Volume 1 -- Volume -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction to Volume 2 -- Part I. Retrospect -- ʹ26. Three Strands of Christian Ethics (1978) -- ʹ27. Distinguishing Modern and Postmodern Theologies (1989) -- Part II. Language, Convictions, and Speech-Acts -- ʹ28. Christian Philosophers or Philosopher Christians? (1968) -- ʹ29. How Is Religious Talk Justifiable? (1968) -- ʹ30. Can There Be Talk about God-and-the-World? (1969) -- ʹ31. Saturday's Child: A New Approach to the Philosophy of Religion (with James Marvin Smith) (1970) -- ʹ32. Homo Loquens: Theology as Grammar (1971) -- ʹ33. 'Convictions' after 'Twenty Years (1995) -- Part III. Convictions Made Flesh Speech-Acts as Embodied Narrative -- ʹ34. Biography as Theology (1971) -- ʹ35. Theology, Language, and Life: A Christian Perspective (1974) -- ʹ36. The God of the Theologians and the God of Jesus Christ (1981) -- ʹ37. Story, Sainthood, and Truth: Biography as Theology Revisited (1982) -- ʹ38. Narrative Ethics and Christian Ethics (1986) -- Part IV. On the Significance of Practices -- ʹ39. Christian Practices and the Postmodern Philosophical Task (1991) -- ʹ40. Toward a Conversionist Spirituality (1994) -- ʹ41. A New Way to Read the Bible (1995) -- ʹ42. A Practical Theory of Religion (1995) -- Part V. Embodying (he Great Story in the World -- ʹ43. Do We Need Saints Today? (1986) -- ʹ44. Toward an Ethics of Delight (1988) -- ʹ45. Ethics for a Career (1988) -- ʹ46. How Can a Christian Be a Law Librarian? (1990) -- ʹ47. How Ts Christian Morality Universalizable? (1991) -- ʹ48. Picture Eschatology (1995) -- ʹ49. Taking the Side of the World (2000) -- Part VI. Prospect -- ʹ50. Ten Theses on the Task of Today's Theology (1989) -- Permissions for Volume 2 -- Scripture Index for Volume 2 -- General Index for Volume 2.

Volume 3. Introduction to volume 3 -- Part I. Waiting: the coming of the Lord. ʹ1. "What's coming next? : an Advent sermon" : Isaiah 64:1-9; Mark 13:24-37 -- ʹ2. "The coming revolution" : Isaiah 9:2-7 -- ʹ3. "What if time stopped? : another Advent sermon" : Malachi 4 -- ʹ4. "Christ present" : John 1:13-18 -- Part II. On the way: the path of discipleship. ʹ5. "Has God made a mistake about the future?" (Ash Wednesday) : Isaiah 2:4f -- ʹ6. "To gather together the scattered children of God" (Ash Wednesday) : John 11:47-53 -- ʹ7. "Polycarp, biography, and theology" (Feast Day of Polycarp) : Matthew 20:20-28; Revelation 2:8-11 -- ʹ8. "Born again?" : John 3:4 -- ʹ9. "When Jesus fails, what then?" : Matthew 10:23 -- ʹ10. Knowing the one thing needful" : Luke 10:38-42 -- ʹ11. "Why Jesus wept" : Luke 13:31-35 -- ʹ12. "The things that are Caesar's" : Mark 12:17a -- ʹ13. "Gospel to the lonely" : Mark 14:3-9 -- ʹ14. "With basin and towel" : Jeremiah 3:12f.; John 13:1-9 -- ʹ15. The thirteenth cross" : Mark 8:34-38 -- ʹ16. "For whom did he die?" : Jeremiah 31:31-37; John 12:20-33 -- ʹ17. "Judas: the passion of leadership" : Matthew 26:14; Romans 8:32; Luke 1:1f. -- Part III. A whole new world. ʹ18. "The death of death on Easter day" : John 20:11a -- ʹ19. "The return of the gardener" : John 20:15 -- ʹ20. "I have my doubts" : John 20:19-33 -- ʹ21. "What really happened at Easter?" : Luke 24:13-35 -- ʹ22. "Earth matters: an Easter sermon" : John 21:9-14; Genesis 1:24-31 -- ʹ23. "Bloodlust and the gospel" : Luke 24:44f. -- Part IV. The time of the spirit-filled community. ʹ24. "Tell Jesus good-bye" : Acts 1:6-11 -- ʹ25. "James and justice" (Feast Day of St. James) : James 2:1-17 -- ʹ26. "The end of the world" : Luke 17:20-25 -- ʹ27. "What makes the Bible [come] true?" : Luke 4:14-21; Nehemiah 8:1-8 -- ʹ28. "Why have a church?" : John 20:21-23 -- ʹ29. "Eyes of faith" : Hebrews 12:18-25 -- ʹ30. "Conversions" (Feast of the Conversion of the Apostel Paul) : Galatians 1:16 -- ʹ31. "How to live with a God who won't stay put" : Job 31:29-40; John 4:19-26 -- ʹ32. "Rendezvous on a strange planet" : Exodus 10:21-26; John 8:12-19 -- ʹ33. "The generation struggle" : Deuteronomy 5:16, 6:20-25 -- ʹ34. "The good old days" : Judges 6:13 -- ʹ35. "The half-Christians" : Daniel 2; Acts 25:13-26:32 -- ʹ36. "Isaiah's gospel: good news for tough times" : Isaiah 43:16-21 -- ʹ37. "Starting over" : Amos 1:1f., 3:3-6 -- ʹ38. "What is this ministry? an ordination sermon" : John 21:18 -- ʹ39. "Is it peace?" : Jeremiah 6:11-15 -- ʹ40. "Rediscovering heaven" (All Saints' Day) : Revelation 7:9-12 -- ʹ41. "Apocalypse: a Christian view of history" : Psalm 79; Revelation 6:1-11 -- ʹ42. "The inner secret of membership" : Romans 5:17-6:23 -- ʹ43. "The creative witness of the cross" : John 12:24 -- Part V. Appendices. ʹ44. "Confession of faith: U.S.A., 1972" -- ʹ45. "Prophetic preaching as witness" -- ʹ46. "How to preach the gospel" : Psalm 119:99.