Includes bibliographical references and index.

The function of systematic theology -- Faith as the expression of the Christian relationship between God and man -- The revelation of God -- Divine revelation and history -- Faith in God and in Christ -- Historical Christianity and the essence of Christianity -- The content of faith -- The validation of the content of Christian faith -- The nature of the affirmations of faith -- The certainty of faith -- The outline -- Holiness as the background of the conception of God -- Tension and unity in the conception of God -- God is love -- The opposition of love to evil -- The sovereignty of love -- The living God -- God as saviour -- God as judge -- God as creator -- The law of creation -- God and the world -- The legitimacy and limitation of dualism -- The completed and continuous work of Christ -- The incarnation -- Christus crucifixus, Christus victor -- Kyrios-Christus -- Christ and the Spirit -- The Trinitarian element in Christian faith -- The nature of sin -- The solidarity of sin -- Sin and guilt -- Divine fellowship realized through forgiveness -- Forgiveness of sins, life and blessedness -- The divine fellowship exists through faith -- Faith as possession and as hope -- The church as the dominion of Christ -- One holy, ecumenical, and apostolic church -- The church and the Christian life -- "The means of grace" -- The word of God -- The sacraments -- The sacrament of prevenient love -- The sacrament of suffering and victorious love -- Prayer -- The Christian ministry -- The obligations of church membership -- Church and state -- Christian unity -- The living and the dead -- Regnum gloriae.