Richard John Neuhaus calls this "the most suc- cinct and lucid statement of Pannenberg's overall enterprise available in English to date."

Here the proponent of "a theology of the resurrec- tion" elaborates on "the theology of reason" and "the theology of the future." Pannenberg is an in- novator whose encompassing intention is to estab- lish a new way of understanding the structure of reality, a theology that will illuminate the general public understanding of the nature of existence.