Hans King's most recent major work, Existiert Gott?, follows his earlier On Being a Christian by only four years and is intended to complement it in such a way that the two fit together seamlessly and mutually illumine his whole theological project (pp. 19, 62). In both works Kung takes up the Christian theologian's distinctively apologetic task of answering the twofold question of the meaning and truth of the Christian message in the contemporary context. In On Being a Christian, Kung focuses on the broadly historical aspect of the hermeneutic demanded by this task. In Existiert Gott?, he turns his attention to the broadly philosophical hermeneutic of contemporary Christian systematic theology. In On Being a Christian, Kung explicitly identifies the horizon of contemporary theology as involving a double confrontation: with the great world religions on the one hand and with non-Christian 'secular' humanisms on the other (p. 25). Both the structure and content of his argument there, however, reveal that he is actually involved in a confrontation on three main fronts, not two. What gives Kung's approach to the apologetic task of Christian theology in both books its peculiar character is the way he understands and treats this third front. In addi-