The Reason For Our Hope provides a special service to the student of theology by providing a contemporary and existential setting to the problem of apologetical theology; by raising philosophical and foundational questions within the context of religious decisions about life and its meaning; by synthesizing the thought of some of the major theologians of the day regarding this subject and especially by correlating the fundamental theologies of Lonergan and Rahner; and by relating a modern transcendental approach to the traditional classical approach of St. Thomas Aquinas.