Fifteen essays analyzing the basic intellectual challenges to the contemporary Christian church. The principal group of essays. Through Jesus Christ, deals with the centrality of Christology in scientific dogmatics and with the Reformed and Roman Catholic doctrines of grace. Among the other topics treated by Professor Torrance are theological education, the relation of theological state-ments to scientific methodology, the contemporary significance of some past theological giants, and the nature and significance of the Holy Spirit and of the church.