Introduction by Kent Eilers Preface Acknowledgements I. Patterns of Rationalism 1. Where We Stand 2. Redemption by Reason: Immanuel Kant and the Rationalism of Morality 3. Translation and Reduction: F. D. E. Schleiermacher and the Rationalism of Experience 4. Metaphor and Concept: Hegel and Conceptual Rationalism 5. Rationalism and Rationality II. Mataphor and Theological Language 1. The Dynamics of Metaphor 2. Words and the World 3. Words and the World 4. Metaphor in Theology 5. Language in Action III. The Battlefield and the Demons 1. A Divine and Human Victory 2. The Old Testament and the New 3. The Language of Demons 4. The Language of Victory IV. The Justice of God: A Conversation 1. Overlaps 2. Anselm of Canterbury 3. Beyond the Legal Metaphor 4. The Justice of God 5. Justice, Justification, Judgement 6. Two Twentieth Century Theologies V. Christ the Sacrifice: A Dead Metaphor? 1. The Problem 2. The Bible and the Metaphor 3. Edward Irving and the Priestly Self-Offering of Christ 4. The Logic of Sacrifice VI. The Atonement and the Triune God 1. Relation 2. God: in the Beginning 3. God: in the End 4. Subjective and Objective 5. Representation and Substitution 6. Two Systematic Questions VII. The Community of Reconciliation 1. Preplexity 2. Truth 3. Victory 4. Judgement 5. Forgiveness 6. Community 7. Praise References and Bibliography Index of Biblical References Index of Subjects Index of Names