| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Part 1 | Reflections of a Lifetime | |
| 1. | A Come-Outer | 17 |
| 2. | A Time to Speak: Conversations at Collegium | 19 |
| 3. | The Vocation of Ministry and The Praying Hands | 47 |
| 4. | The Latest Word | 55 |
| Part 2 | Great Companions | |
| 5. | Roger Baldwin: By Their Groups Shall Ye Know Them | 61 |
| 6. | The Classical Humanism of Irving Babbitt | 67 |
| 7. | Charles Eliot Norton, Genius loci, Shady Hill | 75 |
| 8. | William James: "No Man for Committees" | 83 |
| 9. | George Huntston Williams, Church Historian | 94 |
| 10. | Ernst Troeltsch and Harold Berman on Natural Law | 106 |
| 11. | John XXIII: The Pope Who Would Go Window-shopping | 120 |
| 12. | Reminiscences of Paul Tillich | 125 |
| 13. | In Memoriam: Words for Paul Johannes Tillich | 133 |
| Part 3 | History and Theology | |
| 14. | Prophetic Theology: Interrupting the Meeting | 145 |
| 15. | Encounter with the Demonic | 149 |
| 16. | The Storms of Our Times and Starry Night | 153 |
| 17. | The Existentialist Thesis | 172 |
| 18. | The Chief End of Human Existence | 185 |
| 19. | Sin and Salvation | 193 |
| 20. | The AIDS Epidemic and Palliative Care | 201 |
| 21. | Out of Despair | 207 |
| 22. | God Is Love | 213 |
| Part 4 | Religion and Society | |
| 23. | Religion and the Ideologies | 225 |
| 24. | The Prophetic Covenant and Social Concern | 234 |
| 25. | Root Metaphors of Religious Social Thought | 243 |
| 26. | The Arts and Society | 255 |
| 27. | Our Unconquered Past | 261 |
| 28. | Exiles, Trapped in the Welfare State | 264 |
| 29. | Broken Cisterns and Earthen Vessels | 272 |
| 30. | The Religious Problem of Peace | 281 |
| 31. | The Uses of Diversity | 290 |
| Part 5 | Liberal Christianity | |
| 32. | Neither Mere Morality nor Mere God | 305 |
| 33. | The Liberal Christian Holds Up the Mirror | 308 |
| 34. | Liberals and Evangelicals | 323 |
| 35. | Liberal Religion and the Phoenix | 332 |
| 36. | The Ages of Liberalism | 337 |
| 37. | The Grotesque and Our Future | 353 |
| 38. | Covenants of Strength and Love | 359 |
| 39. | In the Beginning Is the Word | 365 |
| 40. | The Messianic Banquet | 371 |
| Index | 375 |
