It is not necessary to offer a critical survey of Christian theology in the modern era of Western history, not even as potted a survey as has been offered in Part One for Western philosophy. This is partly because the centrepiece of any theology, the concept of God, has continued to figure in such a variety of ways throughout the course of modern philosophy; and partly because there is a shorter route to our imminent goal. This is through a brief survey of the modern Christian theology of revelation, at the centre of which inevitably appears the alleged existence and nature of the divinity operative and revealed. For this final approach, apart from keeping the continuity with a concept which has become dominant in the analysis and argument at this point, enables the critique to come to more immediate grips with the prospects of the reaches of reason (logos) in conversation with a living faith; more immediate, that is to say, than if one had to work through a survey of the history of whole theologies in order to see how reason in its various modes – artistic, ethical, scientific–philosophical – appeared and operated within them.