As a pastoral systematics, The Christian Story rises from, and strives to be a resource, the life and witness of the church and its leadership. The first volume (revised edition 1984) offered an introductory overview of the basic Christian doctriness. Now turning his attention to the individual doctrines, Gabriel Fackre here surveys a spectrum of views on authority from inerrantist to experientialist and sets forth an alternative perspective along ecumenical and narrative lines. The author's search for a full orbed position affirms Scripture as the source, the church and its traditions as resource, the world of human experience as setting, the Gospel as substance and Christ as the center of authority.