Includes indexes.

Bibliography: pages 263-280.

Part I: Historical profile -- 1. The power o vocation -- Educational and spiritual formation -- Anfechtungen and breakthroughs -- Commitments -- 2. Mandate to witness -- Defiant defendant -- Reformation blueprints -- Condemned and concealed -- 3. Shepherding a renewal -- Nothing is real unless it local -- Dividing lines -- The territorial imperative -- 4. Beggars cannot be choosers -- Enduring issues -- Frusterating polemics -- The final Anfechtung -- Part II: Neuralgic heritage -- 5. Scripture and tradition -- The primacy of the Word of God -- Bible and history -- Protestant principle and Catholic substance -- 6. Christ and Caesar -- Life in two realms -- The role of secular government -- Resistance -- 7. The Gospel and Israel -- Struggle with hardened hearts -- Sharp mercy -- Aftershocks -- 8. Religion and psyche -- Psycho-historical pitfalls -- Faith and health -- Sex and marriage -- Part III: Ecumenical legacy -- 9. A Christocentric theology -- The orthodoxy of conflict -- Justification by faith -- A proposal of dogma -- 10. A cruciform church -- Christian formation -- Suffering servanthood -- The cost of unity -- 11. A holistic life -- In tune with creation -- The sanctity of work -- Wit and witness -- 12. God's jester before the court of history -- Hero and villain -- The scrutiny of scholarship -- Posthumous rehabilitation -- Time chart -- Notes.