An understanding of God as a multi-faceted model draws on Christology and Trinity, and faith and practice in community.
A contemporary concept of God draws upon these core elements, and upon a retrieval of the historical traditions from which they arise.
[citation needed] Generosity and the Christian Future (1997) carries this thesis to a further stage through engagement with emancipatory theologies, postmodernity, and political theory.
Newlands takes the work of John Baillie and Donald Ballie as seminal to the understanding, justification and revisioning of a progressive Christian theology.
[citation needed] In The Transformative Imagination: Rethinking Intercultural Theology (2004),[12] Newlands offers a comparative study of connections between theology and culture, through the arts, the sciences, political and human rights issues, and shapes reflection on the mystery of God in a postfoundational frame.
[citation needed] Both of these bodies came in the wake of controversies within the Church of Scotland regarding the blessing of civil partnerships for gay and lesbian people.