Includes bibliographical references.

Letter from Renate Bethge -- Laudatio of John W. de Gruchy / Wolfgang Huber -- Music, word, and theology today : learning from John Calvin / Jeremy Begbie -- Point and counterpoint-- resistance and submission : Dietrich Bonhoeffer on theology and music in times of war and social crisis / Andreas Pangritz -- Spiritual unity and the subject of the composer : the Catholic element in the work of Stockhausen / Thomas Ulrich -- Springing cultural traps : the science-and-theology discourse on eschatology and the common good / Michael Welker -- The whole of earthly life / Larry Rasmussen -- Freedom for humanity : Karl Barth, ecclesial theology, and public life / Clifford Green -- Concrete levels of being and their political implications / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- On religion and theology in a civil society / James R. Cochrane -- Like Moses, we always perish outside the promised land : Reinhold Niebuhr and the contribution of theology to development / Steve de Gruchy -- Does Africa need theology in the twenty-first century? / Chirevo V. Kwenda -- Secularism, pluralism, and the Afrikaner churches in the twenty-first century / Jaap Durand -- Christianity and globalism / Graham Ward -- Reflections on the political power of the theological imagination / Victoria J. Barnett -- Reconciliation as metaphor / Charles Villa-Vicencio -- Using exegesis : on "reconciliation" and "forgiveness" in the aftermath of the TRC / Cilliers Breytenbach -- Reconstructing the doctrine of reconciliation within politics / Ralf K. W??�?stenberg -- Seeing things differently : on prayer and politics / Dirkie Smit.