| Foreword | p. 11 |
| Established Harmonies: A Diminished Seventh in Need of Resolution (The Possibility of a New Direction) | p. 19 |
| Established Harmonies | p. 20 |
| The Diminished Seventh | p. 22 |
| Resolving the Diminished Seventh | p. 23 |
| Continuity or Discontinuity? | p. 26 |
| Entertaining the Notion of a New Key: A Roman Catholic Journey | p. 27 |
| Anticipations of a New Key: A Protestant/Orthodox Journey | p. 35 |
| The Possibility of Attentiveness to Theology in a New Key | p. 48 |
| A Challenge to the Established Harmonies: "The View from Below" (Liberation as a New/Old Note) | p. 50 |
| A Geographical Historical Excursion: From Medellin 1968 to Santiago 1972 | p. 52 |
| Characteristics of "The View from Below" | p. 60 |
| A Different Starting Point: The Poor | p. 60 |
| A Different Interlocutor: The Nonperson | p. 62 |
| A Different Set of Tools: The Social Sciences | p. 64 |
| A Different Analysis: The Reality of Conflict | p. 67 |
| A Different Mode of Engagement: Praxis | p. 70 |
| A Different Theology: The "Second Act" | p. 72 |
| A Note Still to Be Sounded | p. 74 |
| The Melodic Stridency of Scripture: Marx, Luke, and John (From a Hermeneutic of Suspicion to a Hermeneutic of Engagement) | p. 75 |
| The Beneficial Effects of Stridency | p. 76 |
| Recognizing Our "Ideological Captivity" | p. 77 |
| "Hermeneutical Suspicion" | p. 80 |
| "Hermeneutical Circulation" | p. 85 |
| A Hermeneutic of Hope | p. 88 |
| The God Who Takes Sides | p. 88 |
| "To Know God Is to Do Justice" | p. 90 |
| The True Worship | p. 92 |
| Liberty to the Oppressed | p. 94 |
| The Judgment of the Nations | p. 95 |
| A Hermeneutic of Engagement | p. 97 |
| Chords of Discord: A Twelve-Tone Scale of Sorts (A Critique of Critiques: Pros and Cons, Sharps and Flats) | p. 101 |
| An Eightfold Sequence of Critiques | p. 102 |
| Defensive Critiques | p. 103 |
| Total Rejection Critiques | p. 104 |
| Oversimplified Critiques | p. 106 |
| Pseudo-Issue Critiques | p. 110 |
| Reductionist Critiques | p. 114 |
| Methodological Critiques | p. 118 |
| Co-optation Critiques | p. 123 |
| Dialogical Critiques | p. 127 |
| From Critiques to Creative Appropriation | p. 131 |
| "How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land?": Discovering the Word of God for Us (What Can We Learn from Elsewhere for Our Situation?) | p. 132 |
| Rehearing "the Lord's Song"--A Threat and a Challenge | p. 133 |
| Resinging Our Own Song--A More Ample Orchestration | p. 135 |
| Rewriting Our Christian Song--Attention to Neglected Themes | p. 138 |
| Redirecting Our North American Song--A New Kind of National Anthem | p. 143 |
| Reorganizing Our Chorus--A Search for New Alliances | p. 146 |
| Two Cheers for the Church: A Not-Quite Hallelujah Chorus (Is There Still a Role for the Church?) | p. 155 |
| Scenarios for the Future | p. 156 |
| Images for the Future | p. 158 |
| The Remnant Within the Remnant | p. 158 |
| The Abrahamic Minority | p. 160 |
| The Freedom of the Anti-Chameleon | p. 161 |
| Beyond Sloganeering: Can We Enter Into "Solidarity with the Oppressed"? | p. 162 |
| Denunciation and Annunciation | p. 163 |
| Acts of Solidarity Within the Community | p. 165 |
| Hearing the Voice of the Voiceless | p. 172 |
| Taking Sides ... Politically | p. 175 |
| A Theology of "Letting Go" | p. 179 |
| Two Cheers for the Church | p. 182 |
| First Cheer: Liturgy Can Be Enabling | p. 182 |
| Second Cheer: The Global Family Already Exists | p. 186 |
| The Last Word: The Primacy of Act | p. 187 |
| Notes | p. 189 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 199 |
| Index of Names | p. 209 |
| Index of Scripture Passages | p. 212 |
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