"Allen demonstrates how we can think more deeply and comprehensively theologically about Christian doctrine. Such dogmatic analysis serves the church by showing how theology and piety flow together organically not merely as a system but as life before God and by avoiding seeing individual doctrines as abstract datum. Allen's method of dogmatics and view of Scripture can contribute to our understanding of the intellectual life of the people of God." -- Presbyterion "These chapters exhibit a Reformed theological self-understanding amply catholic enough for Christians of many confessions and traditions to find themselves implicated and interested in. Michael Allen asserts the definite orientation of his overall systematic project more clearly here than in any of his previous works." --Fred Sanders, Biola University, USA "In this welcome collection of essays, Michael Allen brings his knowledge, insight, and erudition to bear on a range of dogmatic topics at the very centre of the Christian faith - God, Jesus Christ, and the church. The result is a series of soundings that offer biblically grounded, traditionally informed, and constructively poised wisdom to provoke and resource theological reflection today. Readers will find themselves not only informed and challenged, but also encouraged by this splendid volume.

" --Paul T Nimmo, University of Aberdeen, UK.