Scholarly quips sparkle throughout this 500-page compendium of Christian theology, making it an accessible and user-friendly read. In Evangelii Gaudium Pope Francis says that Christian joy is essential if the Church is to rediscover the original source of evangelisation in the contemporary world; Anthony Towey believes this same joy is essential to the study of theology. Towey is a former academic tutor at the English College in Rome and was head of the school of theology, philosophy and history at St Mary’s University College, London, before recently becoming director of the Aquinas Centre for Theological Literacy at St Mary’s. His Introduction to Christian Theology is aimed not only at students and seminarians as they begin formal academic studies, but at teachers, catechist