Scripture; the dogmatic location of the canon; hermeneutics in modern theology - some doctrinal reflections; reading the Bible - the example of Barth and Bonhoeffer; Christ and the Church; incarnation; Jesus in modernity - reflections on Jungel's Christology; the self-organising power of the Gospel of Christ - episcopacy and community formation; Christ, Church and reconciliation ethics; God and conscience; eschatology and anthropology.