%0 Journal Article %T General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective %A Abhay Ashtekar %A Beverly K. Berger %A James Isenberg %A Malcolm A. H. MacCallum %J Physics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X To commemorate the 100th anniversary of general relativity, the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) commissioned a Centennial Volume, edited by the authors of this article. We jointly wrote introductions to the four Parts of the Volume which are collected here. Our goal is to provide a bird's eye view of the advances that have been made especially during the last 35 years, i.e., since the publication of volumes commemorating Einstein's 100th birthday. The article also serves as a brief preview of the 12 invited chapters that contain in-depth reviews of these advances. The volume will be published by Cambridge University Press and released in June 2015 at a Centennial conference sponsored by ISGRG and the Topical Group of Gravitation of the American Physical Society. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5823v1