| Acknowledgments | 7 |
| Preface: First Thoughts | 9 |
| 1 | First Theology | 15 |
| 2 | Does the Trinity Belong in a Theology of Religions? | 45 |
| 3 | The Love of God | 71 |
| 4 | Effectual Call or Causal Effect? | 96 |
| 5 | God's Mighty Speech Acts | 127 |
| 6 | From Speech Acts to Scripture Acts | 159 |
| 7 | The Spirit of Understanding | 207 |
| 8 | The Reader at the Well | 236 |
| 9 | The Hermeneutics of I-Witness Testimony | 257 |
| 10 | Body Piercing, the Natural Sense & the Task of Theological Interpretation | 275 |
| 11 | The World Well Staged? | 309 |
| 12 | The Trials of Truth | 337 |
| Index of Names | 374 |
| Index of Subjects | 378 |