Challenging confronting the crisis of the modern age. Wolfhart Pannenberg examines questions about the truth of the Christian message and the nature of God and asks whether the Christian faith still contains the truth that gathers together everything experience as real. Closely related to earlier studies on the theology of history the essays in Basic Questions In Theology Volume II concern insight and faith the history of religious the philosophical concept of God, atheism, the doctrine of God, and the God of hope.