Those who interact
with evangelical theologians will not encounter simply a conservative, theological monolith based in philosophical rationalism.
Not exact matches
Ross offers a defense of
evangelical liturgical practices (perhaps better described as «norms,» actually) by putting Catholic scholar Aidan Kavanagh into conversation
with Anglican
theologian John Webster.
Unlike most
evangelical theologians, Wells is at home interacting
with social criticism ranging from Philip Rieff, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Christopher Lasch to Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and James Q. Wilson.
But if
evangelicals could start to identify
with and submit to the discipline of ecclesial bodies, then at least the initial herding of their feline
theologians could commence.
Popular
evangelical pastor and activist Rick Warren was put through the wringer recently in an interview
with Reformed
theologian John Piper.
Fuller
theologian Jack Rogers, for example, reports in Confessions of a Conservative
Evangelical (Westminster, 1974) the shattering of his inherited view that his «orthodox theology» stood in «unbroken continuity
with the theology of Warfield, the Westminster Confession, Calvin, Augustine, and Paul.»
Readers of
theologian Mary Louise Bringle and church historian Roberta Bondi, both of whom have written moving accounts of their struggles
with food, recognize that eating compulsions of every variety bedevil liberal Christians no less than their
evangelical sisters and brothers.
Hermeneutic style will vary
with mainline and
evangelical, just as it does
with the liberationist, feminist or process
theologian, but the biblical underpinnings are essential.
Most
evangelicals also share
with process
theologians the commitment to be realists in their theological affirmations.
I also anticipate that in the coming years,
theologians will re-approach those biblical texts used to condemn homosexuality and perhaps present
evangelicals with some optional interpretations.
naziguy No, I think she knows what
evangelical theologians believe, she just doesn't agree
with it.
At the recent AAR meeting these postconservative
evangelicals held a forum
with Paul Knitter, a «pluralist» on the subject of other religions, and Jürgen Moltmann, an ecumenical
theologian.
Jenson is a Lutheran of the
evangelical catholic variety, although some Lutheran
theologians think,
with justice, that he is more Catholic than Lutheran.
Since its publication, «The Gift of Salvation» (First Things, January), of which we along
with other
Evangelical and Roman Catholic
theologians were signatories, has garnered much attention on both sides of this historic confessional divide.
To come up
with the new definition, researchers sought input from a diverse group of sociologists,
theologians, and
evangelical leaders, including: Richard Mouw, Paul Nyquist, Mark Noll, Rodney Stark, Christian Smith, Penny Marler, Nancy Ammerman, Mark Chaves, Scott Thumma, Warren Bird, Andre Rogers, Peter Lee, Tammy Dunahoo, Gabriel Salguero, Heather Gonzales, Samuel Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Jo Anne Lyon, Leith Anderson, and Lynn Cohick.
Numerous
theologians from different academic backgrounds share key affinities
with the postliberal movement; they include William Willimon,
evangelical ecumenists Stanley Grenz and Gabriel Fackre, the late Baptist
theologian James William McClendon Jr. and British
theologians Rowan Williams and David Ford.
Old - time liberals dismissed him along
with Barth as being biblicistic and pessimistic, and fundamentalists rejected his alleged neo-orthodoxy as a «new modernism» (so Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Seminary) Even so, self - confessed liberal Wilhelm Pauck and leading conservative
evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry found much that was challenging and admirable in Brunner's theology.
Future discussion among process and
evangelical theologians will need to deal
with four issues raised by these three recent publications.
In responding to this understanding of logical limits and metaphysical principles, process
theologians will need to recall the concern of
evangelicals to hold metaphysical principles tentatively But that is consistent
with Whitehead's understanding of metaphysical principles as generalizations.