Don"t laugh! The church can change / Regina Ammicht Quinn -- I. Christological, soteriological and anthropological foundations. Forgetting the humanity of Jesus / Éloi Mesi Metogo -- Salvation from below: toward a humanized humanity / Jon Sobrino -- Imago dei and sexual difference / Janet Martin Soskice -- II. Addressing the faithful. Christian anthropology and gender essentialism: classicism and historical-mindedness / Susan A. Ross -- Ecclesia ab Abel: the "poor" and the church at the start of the twenty-first century / Luiz Carlos Susin -- III. Faith and reflection. Beyond prayer of petition / Andrés Torres Queiruga -- Truth as a religious concept / Erik Borgman -- In praise of Christian relativism / Felix Wilfred -- IV. The church as a community of conviction. Conflicting interpretations of the Council: the Ratzinger-Kasper debate / Solange Lefebvre -- Pre-political foundations of the state / Maureen Junker-Kenny -- Women in the practice of reproductive medicine and in bioethical discourse: an intervention / Regina Ammicht Quinn and Hille Haker.