Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Contents; How to use this Dictionary; Abbreviations; List of contributors; Dictionary articles: A; Abelard, Peter; ABSOLUTION, see GUILT AND FORGIVENESS; Accommodation; Adam; Adiaphora; ADOPTION, see SONSHIP; Adoptionism; Aesthetics; African Christian theology; African Independent Churches, theology of; African theology: recent developments; AGAPE, see LOVE; NYGREN, ANDERS; Agnosticism; Albertus Magnus; Albigenses; Alexandrian School; Alienation; ALLEGORY, see HERMENEUTICS; Allen, Roland; Althaus, Paul; Ambrose.

AMBROSIASTER, see AMBROSEAmes, William; Amyraldism; Anabaptist theology; Analogy; Analytic theology; ANAMNESIS, see EUCHARIST; Angels; Anglicanism; Anglo-Catholic theology; ANHYPOSTASIA, see HYPOSTASIS; Animism; Annihilationism; ANOMOEANS, see ARIANISM; Anonymous Christianity; Anselm; Anthropology; Anthropomorphism; Antichrist; Antinomianism; Antiochene School; ANTI-SEMITISM, see HOLOCAUST; JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY; APARTHEID, see DUTCH REFORMED THEOLOGY (SOUTH AFRICA); RACE; Apocalyptic; APOCRYPHA, see SCRIPTURE; Apollinarianism; Apologetics; Apologists; Apophatic theology; Apostasy.

ApostleAPOSTLES' CREED, see CREEDS; Apostolic Fathers; APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, see MINISTRY; Arab Christian thought; Arianism; Aristotelianism; Arminianism; ART, see AESTHETICS; Asbury, Francis; Ascension [and heavenly session of Christ]; Asceticism and monasticism; Asian Christian theology; Assurance; ATHANSIAN CREED, see ATHANASIUS; CREEDS; Athanasius; Atheism; Atonement; Atonement, extent of; Augsburg Confession; Augustine; Augustinianism; Aulén, Gustaf; AUSCHWITZ, see HOLOCAUST; Authority; Autonomy; Averroism; Dictionary articles: B; Baillie, Donald Macpherson; Baillie, John.

Balthasar, Hans Urs vonBangs, Nathan; Baptism; Baptism in the Spirit; Baptist theology; BARCLAY, ROBERT, see QUAKER THEOLOGY; Barclay, William; Barmen Declaration; Barth, Karl; Basil of Caesarea; BAUR, F.C., see TÜBINGEN SCHOOL; Bavinck, Herman; Bavinck, Johan Herman; Baxter, Richard; Beck, Johann Tobias; Being; BELGIC CONFESSION, see CONFESSIONS OF FAITH; Bellarmine, Robert; Benedict and the Benedictine tradition; Bengel, Johann Albrecht; BERDYAEV, see RUSSIAN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY; Berengar; Berkeley, George; Berkhof, Hendrikus; Berkhof, Louis; Berkouwer, Gerrit Cornelis; Berlin Declaration.

Bernard of ClairvauxBeza, Theodore; Biel, Gabriel; Black consciousness; Black theology; Blasphemy; Bloesch, Donald G.; BLOOD, see SACRIFICE; BODY, see ANTHROPOLOGY; BODY OF CHRIST, see CHURCH; Boehme, Jacob; Boethius; Boff, Leonardo; Bonaventura; Bonhoeffer, Dietrich; BOOK OF CONCORD, see CONFESSIONS OF FAITH; Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne; Boston, Thomas; Bradwardine, Thomas; Briggs, Charles Augustus; Brown, William Adams; Brunner, Emil; Buber, Martin; Bucer (Butzer), Martin; Buddhism and Christianity; Bulgakov, Sergei; Bullinger, Johann Heinrich; Bultmann, Rudolf; Bunyan, John; Bushnell, Horace.