Continues the author's Jesus.

"A Crossroad book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The authority of new experiences and the authority of the New Testament. The authority of new experiences -- The authority of the canonical New Testament -- Do we begin with the New Testament or with present-day experience? A false alternative -- New Testament theology of the experience of grace : justification for the method used. Ḥānan and ḥēn; ḥesed and ʼʻmet : the concept of grace in the Tanach -- Early Jewish reinterpretation within the Hellenistic concept of charis -- Theological theory of grace in Paul -- Paulinism outside the authentic letters of Paul : new interpretations -- Suffering for others : the future of a better world -- Churches in the process of stabilization speak of salvation-in-Jesus -- Jesus, the witness of God-is-love : Johannine theology -- Christ, the witness of God-is-righteous : the Apocalypse -- The concept of grace and the reality of salvation to which it refers -- "To bring all to unity (peace)" -- God of grace, Jesus Christ and the Spirit -- "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness" -- The new testament churches as exodus communities in historically conditioned situations -- The New Testament experience of grace and social structures -- The life of grace and political power in the New Testament -- The life of grace and socio-culturally determined ethics in the New Testament -- Israel and the New Testament church -- Structural elements of the New Testament theologies of Grace -- God's glory and man's truth, well-being and happiness. Man and his future -- Critical rememberance of suffering humanity -- God does not want mankind to suffer -- The height and breadth and depth of human salvation -- Christian salvation.

Translation of Gerechtigheid en liefde from Dutch into English.