Apparently, if a book contains anything that LifeWay (part of the Southern Baptist Convention) does not consider «consistent with
historical evangelical theology,» it gets a label.
Because, well, is selective discernment in line with
historical evangelical theology?
And what
historical evangelical theology is communicated by paintings of cottages printed on mousepads, and T - shirts that print Scripture pulled from context across an American flag or keychains, or romance novels minus the sex?
LifeWay warns Miller's readers to exercise discernment because it believes his books to be inconsistent with
historical evangelical theology in some way, yet instead of refusing to sell them, LifeWay chooses to profit from what it alleges to be heresy (ish).
Not exact matches
Donald W. Dayton is associate professor of
historical theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, and chair of the steering committee of the
evangelical theology section of the American Academy of Religion.
Similarly, Lindsell's
historical analysis has some validity for the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, which took theological shape in a confessional reaction to the 19th century emergence of the «
Evangelical United Front» — a reaction grounded in Lutheran scholasticism just as the Princeton
theology was grounded in Reformed scholasticism.
While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church, most
evangelicals make their
historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian
theology.
Steven Studebaker, associate professor of systematic and
historical theology and the Howard & Shirley Bengal Chair in
evangelical thought at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, is planning on including in his Protestant theologians class John Polkinghorne, physicist and Anglican priest, and Philip Clayton, philosopher of religion and science.