Kennedy has a genuine passion to discover a Christianity which can proclaim truth. A Modern Introduction to Theology can serve as the principal textbook for introductory student courses in theology and doctrine, the history of Christianity, church history and philosophy of religion. - Diarmaid N J MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford. It is ... Read moreone of the unfortunate facts of our time that few books about theology manage to communicate beyond the circle of professional theologians. Even fewer are those that convey a sense of academic theology itself as an important, exciting, and challenging venture in human thought. Kennedy's book does just this. Vigorous, punchy, and fast-moving, it will excite, instruct, disturb and provoke. Accessible to students from sixth-form level upwards, it also contains much that calls for a response from academic colleagues and, no less importantly, the Churches themselves. - George Pattison, Lady Margaret Prof. of Divinity, Univ.of Oxford Show Less