Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Thinking of God without Losing Our Way -- 1. Where does The God Delusion come from? -- 2. The impossibility of atheism -- 3. Amongst strangers and friends: thinking of God in our current confusion -- 4. Recovering contingency -- 5. Renewed, dissolved, remembered: MacKinnon and metaphysics -- Part two: Road-signs: Theology and Other Things We Say -- 6. 'Visio unica et ordinata scientiae'? -- 7. 'An immense darkness' and the tasks of theology -- 8. Reason, fools and Rameau's nephew -- 9. Where does holy teaching leave philosophy? questions on Milbank's Aquinas -- Part three: Road-works: Theology and other things we do: -- 10. Conversion in context -- 11. Sebastiano in Pallara: a pilgrim's tale -- 12. Fear of the dark -- 13. Travellers' fare -- 14. The subversiveness of catholicity -- Part four: The Struggle for the Council: -- 15. Vatican II: of happy memory - and hope? -- 16. What happened at Vatican II? -- 17. On re-reading Vatican II -- 18. In the spirit of Vatican II?