1. Ingolf U. Dalferth is Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is the author of many books, including Philosophy and Theology (1988). This article is a translation of his inaugural lecture, “ ‘Was Gott ist, bestimme ich!’ Theologie im Zeitalter der ‘Cafeteria-Religion,’ ” which appeared in Theologische Literaturzeitung 121 (1996), 415-30. It was translated by Margaret A. von Maltzahn Kirby.