Contents This Book Part One: Tradition and Innovation: (1) Dialectic of Authority; (2) Method: Trend and Variations; (3) Mission and the Spirit; (4) Aquinas Today: Tradition and Innovation; (5) Prolegomena to the Study of the Emerging Religious Consciousness of Our Time; (6) Christology Today: Methodological Reflections; (7) Healing and Creating in History. Part Two: Lectures on Religious Studies and Theology: (8) Preface; (9) Second Lecture: Religious Knowledge; (10) Third Lecture: The Ongoing Genesis of Methods. Part Three: Theory And Praxis: (11) Natural Right and Historical Mindedness; (12) Theology and Praxis; (13) A Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion; (14) Pope John's Intention; (15) Unity and Plurality